from "The Chocolate Soldier"
Music by Oscar Straus
Words by Stanislaus Stange
1909
Show Bertram Wooster a table and a framed photograph, and you don't have to tell him what the upshot is going to be. Muriel Kegley-Bassington stood revealed as a 'My Hero' from The Chocolate Soldier addict.
[...] I would rank 'My Hero' next after 'The Yeoman's Wedding Song' as a standee-rouser, and when a large blonde appeared and took up the photograph and gave it a soulful look [...], I was expecting big things.
The Mating Season. Chapter 22
'Say no more, old flesh and blood', I said. 'I will return the cat to store. And if while I am doing so Cook jumps out from behind a bush and tears me into a hundred fragments, what of it? It will be merely one more grave among the hills. What did you say?'
'Just "My Hero"', said he aged relative.
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen. Chapter 16