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Maid in America was an American show. Florence Moore starred.

The show played at the Winter Garden Theatre for 108 shows in 1915. IBDb documents it as a revue in two acts with 12 scenes.[1]

Sigmund Romberg and Harry Carroll.

The New York Public Library has keysheets for it.[2]

https://aspace.library.wmich.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/79941

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Herman Avery Wade arranged a selection of songs from the show for Universal Music and a Universal Music Melody Roll.

  • Oh! Those Days
  • The Stolen Melody
  • Sister Suzie's Started Syncopatin
  • I'm Looking For Someone's Heart [3]

Songs included "I've been floating down the old green river" ??? by Bert Kalmar and Joe Cooper. Sheet music for it was published in 1915 by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. in New York City. One of the song's lyrics is "I've been floating down the old green river on the good ship Rock and Rye. But I floated too far, I got stuck on a bar."[4] Billy Murray made a 1916 recording of it.[5]

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