 Waller came to his senses the next day, but Kollmar decided that his drinking habits made him too risky a proposition for eight performances a week.From then on, Waller was the show's composer only, with lyrics by George Marion, whose best-remembered work today is the script for the Astaire-Rogers film "The Gay Divorcée".Six months after the premiere of "Early to Bed", it was still playing in a Broadway theater; at that point newspapers reported Waller's premature death.