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Dancing.
The program, under her ladyship's billing, carried an announcement that "following this engagement she goes to Siberia for the Russian War Orphans' Relief Fund." After sitting through the three "classical" dances (three others had been deleted following the matinee), one feels it a war duty to tip off the Russian kids and induce her ladyship to try some other method of patriotic work than the stage route. Just what the dances meant can hardly be guessed. They were not programmed, perhaps because no one could think of a name for them. She glided out from behind a cyclorama setting and started right for ground work, twisting her arms awkwardly and making funny faces at the audience. Much of her person was exposed, much! There was neither grace nor rhythm to her gestures, and finally after apparently getting armweary, she flopped over, smiled, arose and exited. The same thing happened in the two succeeding dances. It was really amusing and the majority of the audience accepted it as such, but why mis-bill a comedy act? Lady Richardson should permanently retire from vaudeville in favor of some good act now that Hammerstein's is a thing of the past. It was first at Hammerstein's Victoria some years ago, Lady Constance gave indisputable proof in her 'act" that her only possible value to a variety bill was contained in her prefix of "Lady."
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Variety, 53:7 (01/10/1919)