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As "No. 4" she
won both plaudits and laughter, the latter
particularly by her delivery of "Salome,"
a new song with the parodied
"Salome" chorus set to the melody of
Mendelssohn's "Spring Song.""Big Night Tonight" did well,
while the opening song, a new comic one
called (perhaps) "When the Band Plays
the Wedding March, It's Good-bye to Me "
containing a lyric with a moral, left a
distinctly good impression at the commencement,
and the orchestra was finally
obliged to shut off the applause.
As sung
by Miss Vance with her graceful movements
of the hands to illustrate, it became
one of the best things she has ever
done.
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Variety 13:5(01/09/1909)