At the Moving Picture Ball - Bobby Short

Hip hooray

I feel delighted

Yesterday

I was invited

To a swell affair

All the movie stars were there

Oh what fun

The party lasted

Till the break of dawn

Famous players

Turned to cabareters

How they fooled and carried on

Dancing at the moving picture ball

Some scenario

Great big stars paraded 'round the hall

They were merry, Oh

Handsome Wallace Reid

Stepped out full of speed

And Theda Bara, Was a terror

She «vamped the little lady»

So did Alice Brady;

Douglas Fairbanks shimmied on one hand

Like an acrobat

Mary Pickford did a toe dance grand and

Charlie Chaplin with his feet

Stepped all over poor Blanche Sweet

Dancing at that moving picture ball

Ev’ry girl

A handsome looker

Had a dance

With Mister Zukor

Mister Thomas Ince

Stepped around just like a prince

William Fox

And Jessie Lasky

Both joined in the fun

Big directors

Mingled with the actors

Why the whole bunch seemed like one

Dancing at the moving picture ball

Some scenario

Great big stars paraded 'round the hall

They were merry, Oh

Handsome Wallace Reid

Stepped out full of speed

And Theda Bara, Was a terror

She «vamped the little lady»

So did Alice Brady;

Douglas Fairbanks shimmied on one hand

Like an acrobat

Mary Pickford did a toe dance grand and

Sennet’s bathing girls were there

Each one was a little «bear»

Dancing at that moving picture ball