Footlight Motifs
Fairy, elfin, pixie, sprite,
Naiad, hamadryad, fay,
Witch and Phantom of Delight
Such-a-little flow’r-o’-May,
Emmy Wehlen, more than pretty
Subject of this Deathless Ditty!
Naiad, hamadryad, fay,
Witch and Phantom of Delight
Such-a-little flow’r-o’-May,
Emmy Wehlen, more than pretty
Subject of this Deathless Ditty!
Wherefore I should like to hint,
Caring not if it be seen,
Here and now in public print,
She’s considerable queen.
Nothing’s left in my thesaurus —
She’s a peach, believe me, Mawruss.
Caring not if it be seen,
Here and now in public print,
She’s considerable queen.
Nothing’s left in my thesaurus —
She’s a peach, believe me, Mawruss.
EVA TANGUAY
Tell me not, in boastful hollers,
What her salary may be;
Though it be a million dollars
It is all the same to me.
What her salary may be;
Though it be a million dollars
It is all the same to me.
Though the universal rumor
Place her at the top of fun,
To my narrow mind, of humor
She has absolutely none.
Place her at the top of fun,
To my narrow mind, of humor
She has absolutely none.
Lives of actresses remind us,
We can make an awful Hit,
If we only put behind us
All our Piety and Wit.
We can make an awful Hit,
If we only put behind us
All our Piety and Wit.
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