Norah Bayes

Singing.

"We'll Celebrate the End of the War in Ragtime," "When Mother Was a Girl," and an Irish song.

Miss Bayes has a couple of numbers she can depend upon. Another that she apparently feels must be depended upon is "When Mother Was a Girl," sung by "request," Miss Bayes says. It was all right in its day as Norah mentions in her brilliantly written medley of her old songs, that is one of the other sure fires of the turn. Tuesday evening the heat may have gotten to Miss Bayes as well as any one else. It should have reached them all behind the footlights. But she failed to take her first number in the proper tempo, or secure the proper sense from t, did little with an Irish song following, and finally went away out of her class to fool around with a nonsensical (for her) song about a red robin or something like. She did put over, however, "We'll Celebrate the End of the War in Ragtime" that has a kick in its final line that will not fall down anywhere while Germany is keeping Woodrow on the pan.

Variety, 40:3 (09/17/1915)