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Impressions of vaudeville stars.
Violet Dale replaced Whiting and Burt on the bill with her "impressions of familiar theatrical folk. Her first three, Lillian Shaw, Harry Lauder and May Vokes, were bad. She wasn't a bit like Miss Shaw, the Lauder imitation was like those done of the Scotchman before he ever came to this country and was imitated by every little girl on the stage, none of whom had ever seen him, and she didn't "get" May Vokes' voice at all. The best thing she did was Mrs. Carter in "Zaza," with the Carter red hair. She seemed to have caught Mrs. C's voice to a nicety. The Pavlowa imitation gives the impression she was on a wire and was followed by Nazimova in "War Brides" - very good, excepting when she failed to sustain the Nazimova foreign accentuations. It's a good "act," with the bowing in a huge cloak and the chest heaving between imitations.
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Variety, 40:13 (11/26/1915)