Annelu Burns

[4] She wrote music alongside Ernest Ball, including lyrics for the songs I'll Forget You and For the Sake of Auld Lang Syne.

[3] Her poetry was composed into music by Mana-Zucca, James G. MacDermid, Alexander MacFaydn, Frank La Forge, Cliff Friend, and Max Kortlander.

The musical was staged in December the same year by the American Committee for Devastated France as part of a post-war fundraising effort.

In 1922, while still unable to return before the New York production, Burns sold her rights to the musical to Helen Smith Woodruff.

The songs she sold included "Love-Just Simply Love", "It's Hard to Be A Lady All The Time", "I'll Name My Dolly for You", and "A Wedding is a Mournful Thing Unless it is Your Own.

Burns (second from right) singing with Madelyn Sheppard, Helen S. Woodruff , J. B. Wells , and sailors, c. 1918