Content: As sung in the Ziegfeld Follies [of] 1918 by Eddie Cantor--Cover.
Funding: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
Content: Caption title.
Content: Cover cameo photograph of Eddie Cantor.
Content: Cover illustrated by Starmer.
Content: First line of chorus: After the ball was over.
Content: First line of text: All the girls that Willie knew were dancers.
Content: For voice and piano.
Funding: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Statement Of Responsibility: lyric and music by Bud De Sylva and Arthur J. Jackson.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 score (5 p.) : ill. ; 35 cm.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPG98-C121
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14527955
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4506a540-c5ff-012f-b8ed-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Notated Music

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MLA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "But-after the ball was over! : then he made up for lost time : song" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1918. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4506a540-c5ff-012f-b8ed-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1918). But-after the ball was over! : then he made up for lost time : song Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4506a540-c5ff-012f-b8ed-58d385a7bc34

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Music Division, The New York Public Library. "But-after the ball was over! : then he made up for lost time : song" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4506a540-c5ff-012f-b8ed-58d385a7bc34

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