He performed in only one other Broadway musical during his career, Matt Mulligan, Jr. in Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Jumbo in 1935-1936.

Novis was also highly active as a singer with big bands and as a radio entertainer in the 1930s, including having his own program on NBC beginning on 15 June 1932.

[9] He performed frequently with Anson Weeks and his band and was often heard on the radio programme Fibber McGee and Molly.

In 1955 Novis co-created the script for the long-running “Golden Horseshoe Revue” at Disneyland’s Frontierland with Wally Boag.

On 4 November 1929,[note 1][5] Novis married his first wife, soprano Emma Julietta Burnett, at Long Beach, California.

[5] In February 1938, Novis married his second wife, Dorothy Bradshaw, a former Ziegfeld girl, at the Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, Arizona.