Llora Hoffman

Singing and piano accompaniment.

A single singer, of the straight variety and perhaps from the concert stage, Llora Hoffman appears to have a better defined opinion of what should constitute a vaudeville act in her class than many of the same class who have preceded her. With a cultured soprano, she "soars" but in one number playing for the others from the lyrical end as well, and Miss Hoffman may do this, for she is one of the very few prima donnas who has understood enunciation's importance sufficiently to divide her vocal study on it. That not alone adds a pleasurable value to her voice but permits Miss Hoffman to take on numbers which with other trained voices might mean nothing. Accordingly her repertoire seems more adaptable to a vaudeville audience, and it's the clarity of the lyrics that make them so. Especially true is this of her final number, a poem dedicated to the French mother and set to a melody. Miss Hoffman is a wholesome looking woman who appears to have her hair bobbed. That forces out her features in relief and aids the picture she presents. At the piano is Charles Lurvey, who acts as accompanist only. Miss Hoffman does not leave the stage, but she does give expression to her songs by repressed little gestures, and displays by suggestion more so perhaps an animation while singing that places her in firm favor. As a straight single singer in vaudeville Miss Hoffman will pass along. She is not sensational, but she is substantial.

Variety, 53:6 (01/03/1919)