m. Victor Herbert, w. Rida Johnson Young. The music only of this song first appeared in print in the piano-vocal score of the show Naughty Marietta, in the Overture and Entr’acte, published Nov. 7, 1910,^ by M. Witmark & Sons, New York, N.Y., and four other cities. In the first edition of the piano-vocal score, the front cover has a photograph of Emma Trentini and is brown, green and tan, and the score includes an Entr’acte.
The composition at all times included words, and was sung from the very beginning of the operetta’s career.- Victor Herbert was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1859, played the cello in Germany, and came to the United States in 1886 where he became a composer of operettas; he died in New York City in 1924. Rida Johnson Young, an author, librettist and actress, was born in Baltimore in 1869 and died in Stamford, Conn., in 1926.
