The Shadows Of Yesterday's Stars

Written for: Gold Diggers Of 1935 (1935)
Performer: Studio Orchestra (instrumental)
Lyric: Al Dubin
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1935
Original publisher: M. Witmark & Sons

MIDI includes music for the Verse section that does not follow the lyric below. The chorus is correct with the lyric, though.

Verse:

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen,
I welcome you tonight, glad to see you again.
Upon this old and famous landmark,
We bring a type of show that's new;
Where all the stars of yesterday
Used to pass in review;
We've turned it into a playground,
For you and for you and you;

Chorus:

You're dining and drinking and dancing
With the shadows of yesterday's stars;
In the dressing rooms of Barrymore and Bernhardt,
You'll find the latest thing in cocktail bars.
A boy and a girl do a tango
'Mid the ashes of Warfield's cigars;
E. H. Sothern comes with Marlowe to weave a romance;
While you dine and you drink and you dance,
With the shadows of yesterday's stars.