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Frankie Heath and Sam Drane have a
nice little scene from "The Girl of the
Golden West," a touch of seriousness that
gave relief from the others; Clem Bevins
made a capital Raymond Hitchcock, although
some of the business involved
might, be scratched in the interests of
decency; Anna Chandler caught with
real skill the voice inflections of Fay Templeton
and Anna Held, and made both impersonations
decidedly interesting, and
George Betts assayed Harry Lauder with
the usual result. Dennis
Mullen is the busy person in the comedy
department, and goes a long way to
give the piece the necessary laughing
values.
The Brooklyn audience found a series
of impersonations the best of the show.
Out of nine items Maurice Wood stood
out strongly with an impersonation of
Eva Tanguay that was positively startling
in its exactness. Miss
Wood also did a "Vesta Victoria," good
in itself, but in no way to be compared
to her unrivalled bit of mimicry of the
much-impersonated Tanguay.
Everyone in the big cast fits properly into
his or her place, and the first part and
burlesque, if one might so designate the
halves of the two-act book, combined into
perhaps the fastest, most novel and altogether
satisfactory performance that the
burlesque wheels have offered in New
York this season. That isn't the whole list by any means.
There are twenty names in the cast, and
not a "dead one" in the lot. The whole
offering is a big burlesque entertainment.
Source:
Variety 12:10 (11/14/1908)