Editing Max Steiner (section)

===Broadway music (1914–1929)===
In New York, Max Steiner quickly acquired employment and worked for fifteen years as a musical director, arranger, orchestrator, and conductor of Broadway productions. These productions include operettas and musicals written by [[Victor Herbert]], [[Jerome Kern]], [[Vincent Youmans]], and [[George Gershwin]], among others. Steiner's credits include: ''[[George White's Scandals]]'' (1922) (director), ''Peaches'' (1923) (composer), and ''[[Lady, Be Good (musical)|Lady, Be Good]]'' (1924) (conductor and orchestrator).<ref name=Leaney>{{cite book|last1=Leaney|first1=Edward A.|editor1-last=D'Arc|editor1-first=James|editor2-last=Gillespie|editor2-first=John N.|title=The Max Steiner Collection|date=1996|publisher=Special Collections and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University|location=Provo, Utah|chapter=A Max Steiner Chronology|chapter-url=http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS1547.xml}}</ref> At twenty-seven years old, Steiner became [[Fox Film Corporation|Fox Film]]'s musical director in 1915.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sanjek|first1=Russell|title=American Popular Music and Its Business: From 1900 to 1984|url=https://archive.org/details/americanpopularm00san_hz5|url-access=registration|date=1988|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=UK|isbn=978-0-195-04311-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/americanpopularm00san_hz5/page/11 11]}}</ref> At the time, there was no specially written music for films and Steiner told studio founder [[William Fox (producer)|William Fox]] his idea to write an original score for ''[[The Bondman (1916 film)|The Bondman]]'' (1916). Fox agreed and they put together a 110-piece orchestra to accompany the screenings.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rosenberg|first1=Bernard|last2=Silverstein|first2=Harry|title=The Real Tinsel|url=https://archive.org/details/realtinsel00rose|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=Macmillan|location=New York|isbn=978-1-19-946278-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/realtinsel00rose/page/388 388–389]}}</ref> During his time working on Broadway, he married Audree van Lieu on 27 April 1927. They divorced on 14 December 1933.<ref name=Leaney/> In 1927, Steiner orchestrated and conducted [[Harry Tierney]]'s ''[[Rio Rita (musical)|Rio Rita]]''. Tierney himself later requested [[RKO Pictures]] in Hollywood hire Steiner to work in their music production departments. [[William LeBaron]], RKO's head of production, traveled to New York to watch Steiner conduct and was impressed by Steiner and his musicians, who each played several instruments. Eventually, Steiner became a Hollywood asset.<ref name=Thomas/> Steiner's final production on Broadway was ''Sons O' Guns'' in 1929.<ref name="Thomas" />