Peter Arno? One of The New Yorker's most-famed cartoonists?

The very one. You'll note the font on this sheet music is the same as the magazine's. As far as I know, this was his only venture into writing a play (having written that, I think he did write another bomb, called "Here Comes the Bride"). (I used to have a copy of a biography of him, but I don't know where it's gone to.) He apparently also did some of the set designs, and as you can see, he did the illustration for the sheet music (which was also used on the program). Jimmy Durante starred in it, and it had a decent, though not sensational, run during a dismal year on Broadway. Durante also wrote some of the songs; Porter's best remembered song from this was "Love for Sale." As far as I know, none of the songs was used in a WB cartoon, even though, as you see, Harms Inc. owned the rights.

Just One of Those Things had a life far beyond this musical; Let's Fly Away to a lesser extent. Similarly, Knickerbocker Holiday gave us September Song and a few more forgettable tunes.

Much of the music Carl Stalling pilfered for the WB studio music was originally written (as I'm sure you're aware) by Raymond Scott. He went off on a toot about electronic music and machines that could write their own music. He dumped everything on Warner's for a song and walked away to play with analog computing.

FWIW, Scott wound up working with two names you should remember. Jim Henson and Robert Moog both contracted to Scott.

Scott was certainly a composer Stalling used a lot, though to say "much" might be an exaggeration. He spread his net very far in the Harms/Witmwark/Remick catalogue, as well as the public domain tunes he had to use when he (Stalling) was at Disney and Iwerks.

The version of "Just One of Those Things" you're thinking of was written by Porter, but for a later musical, Jubilee, in 1935. Same title, different song.

Well, I come here to learn.

I don't know if you're aware of these, among the very first CDs I ripped to MP3:

The Carl Stalling Project - Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons 1936-1958

The Carl Stalling Project Volume 2

To quote the late, great, Eddie (Rochester) Anderson: "Oh, COME NOW, boss!"

Got 'em as stocking stuffers from family members who knew their mink.

That definitely figures.

Warren and Dubin ("42nd Street," "We're in the Money," "September in the Rain," etc.) might be a challenger to Scott for the title of Music Team Used Most Often in WB cartoons.

I double-checked. It was in 1931 that Arno co-wrote "Here Goes the Bride." He did the art for the sheet music for that musical, too. (Looks like Famous, the Paramount musical arm, owned the rights to that show.)

8o