╡PARA ¡PAR@ ` ╡TEXT ` ºBayes, Nora1880╨1928singer and actorBorn, according to various sources, in Los Angeles or Chicago or Milwaukee or, as she herself claimed, Joliet, Illinois, in 1880, Dora Goldberg was at least living in Joliet when she went on the stage at eighteen. She used various stage names, including her own, early in her career but eventually settled on Nora Bayes. For a time she performed with a San Francisco repertory company and about 1900 entered vaudeville. She became a star in 1902 at the Orpheum Theatre in Brooklyn with her rendition of Harry von Tilzer╒s ╥Down Where the Wurzburger Flows,╙ a song she introduced and was long identified with. From 1904 to 1907 she toured in variety shows and musical comedies in Europe and then returned to appear in the first (1907) edition of the Ziegfeld Follies. Thereafter she was an eminently successful fixture on the Broadway and London musical stages. During a vaudeville stand at the Palace Theatre, New York, in 1914╨1915, she was billed as ╥The Greatest Single Woman Singing Comedienne in the World.╙ Among the other songs that she introduced or made popular were ╥Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?,╙ ╥Take Me Out to the Ball Game,╙ ╥Japanese Sandman,╙ George M. Cohan╒s great song of World War I ╥Over There,╙ and the song that became her theme and that was always associated with her memory, ╥Shine On, Harvest Moon,╙ written by her and her husband, Jack Norwood, and introduced in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908. In January 1919 she inaugurated the Nora Bayes Roof at the 44th Street Theatre with the musical Ladies First. Bayes, who was married five times and reportedly earned $100,000 a year at her peak, died in New York City on March 19, 1928. ╓styl `
