Editing Billy Mayerl (section)

==Career==
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In 1926, Mayerl left the Savoy and opened his 'School of [[Syncopation]]' which specialised in teaching modern music techniques such as [[ragtime]] and [[stride piano]]. It led to the long-running correspondence course, 'How to play like Billy Mayerl'. During this period, he wrote his most famous solo, 'Marigold'. By the late 1930s his correspondence school was believed to have had over 100 staff members and 30,000 students. It closed in 1957.

On 28 October 1925, Mayerl was the soloist in the London premiere of [[George Gershwin]]'s ''[[Rhapsody in Blue]]''. In December 1926, he appeared with [[Gwen Farrar]] (1899–1944) in a [[short film]]—made in the [[Lee de Forest]] [[Phonofilm]] [[sound-on-film]] process—in which they sang Mayerl's song "I've Got a Sweetie on the Radio". His song "Miss Up-to-Date" was sung and played by [[Cyril Ritchard]] in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s sound film ''[[Blackmail (1929 film)|Blackmail]]'' (1929).

In November 1927, his piano styles accompanied the Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce, American Vaudeville vocal harmonizers who first recorded in England.

On 1 October 1929, Billy Mayerl's orchestra performed at the opening of the [[Locarno Dance Hall]] in [[Streatham]].

In the 1930s Mayerl composed several works for the musical theatre, including three connected with horse racing: ''[[Sporting Love]]'', opening at the [[Gaiety Theatre, London]] in 1934; ''[[Twenty to One]]'' (Coliseum 1935); and ''[[Over She Goes]]'' (Saville 1936). In 1938, jazz pianist [[Marian McPartland]] joined his group "Mayerl's Claviers" under the name Marian Page.

Mayerl stepped in as bandleader for the [[Grosvenor House Hotel]] in May 1941, when [[Sydney Lipton]] was called up to serve with the  [[Royal Corps of Signals]].<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/2cb3b0e6647c41e580334e637072c2e3 ''Radio Times'' Issue 923, 8th June 1941, p. 28]</ref> Lipton returned after the war.