Nora Bayes

Singing.

"I Work Eight Hours," "She's One of the Good Old Kind," "Black Eyed Susan," "A Little Love."

Nora Bayes is celebrating a return engagement, headlining with an entirely reconstructed repertoire. In addition Miss Bayes strolled a trifle away from the conventional to offer a few short minutes of comedy talk dealing with her experience in storing her Saxon away for the winter months. The patter was cleverly moulded into a seasonable yarn, told well by Miss Bayes and properly appreciated by the audience. Garbed in a fetching gown, Miss Bayes opened with "I Work Eight House" and followed with a Celtic song, entailing the use of a rich "Come-All-Ye" in a lyric labelled "She's One of the Good Old Kind." "Black Eyed Susan" followed and then "A Little Love" (the familiar "Robin Love Song") and her excellent medley of old song titles to a speech finale. The medley called for periodical chunks of applause, but on the whole Miss Bayes was at her best in every detail and stood out in that program without any visible opposition. Lyric and melody are of secondary consideration to the usual Nora Bayes routine, the principal's personality, delivery and stage tact constituting the value proper and she seems to have those three essentials in abundance right now, more so than ever. She walked off with all honors.

Variety, 41:5 (12/31/1915)