[ Ref. Jim Neher in 210724 MMDigest --

If a QRS roll says it's played by Frank Milne, it is by Milne!

In the 1940s there was an uptick in roll sales and J. Lawrence Cook
couldn't keep up. After the final rolls from Aeolian-American, Milne
was available, and QRS hired him to take on work that Cook was too
busy to do.

Milne worked for QRS from 1940 to 1947. Something similar happened
with another ex-Aeolian roll arranger, Rudy Erlebach. The timeline of
QRS artists from 1931 onwards is given in the Billings rollography.

Milne did both of the types of production that was characteristic
of QRS -- creation of new rolls, and revision of earlier issues to
bring them up-to-date. On a few of his earlier QRS rolls he used the
house pseudonyms, but soon everything he created was under his own name.

The periodic revision of titles by QRS left a legacy of different
arrangements of the same title using the same issue number, sometimes
with different names on label and roll!

In Volume 5 of their QRS rollography, Bob & Ginny Billings included
a complete transcript of an interview by Mike Montgomery of Cook, and
it is explicit that Milne's QRS rolls have nothing to do with Cook.

MONTGOMERY: Didn't [Milne] work for QRS in the '40s or '50s?

COOK: Frank Milne was formerly with Aeolian. During the war we were so
swamped. We used to call in Rudy Erlebach once in a while, to help me
out when I was swamped. But this would just be for a few weeks or a few
months. But Frank was there during the entire war period, and we both
worked there. We only had the one recording piano, but we would arrange
our work so that he would be editing while I was recording, and vice
versa.

MONTGOMERY: Would everything with his name on it be his arrangement,
would you say?

COOK: Yes.

Ref.
The Billings Rollography, Volume Five
QRS Pianists 1934-1994, QRS Company History & Memorabilia

Available to AMICA members on their website, https://www.amica.org/ 

Julian Dyer