Rida Johnson Young

Young, Rida Johnson [neé Ida Louise Johnson] (1866–1926), lyricist and librettist. The Baltimore native pursued an acting career before working for the music publisher Isidore Witmark. Turning to playwriting, she saw her first work, Lord Byron, produced in 1900 by James Young, whom she later married. Her best‐known works were Brown of Harvard (1906), The Lottery Man (1909), Naughty Marietta (1910), Captain Kidd Jr. (1916), Maytime (1917), and Little Old New York (1920). All in all Young wrote nearly thirty plays and musicals and penned such famous songs as “Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life,” “I'm Falling in Love with Someone,” and “Will You Remember?”