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Violin accompaniment and singing.
"The Trumpeter," Bizet number, "Suwanee River," an unknown aria, and a Gounod serenade.
They enthused over the star. Before, between, and after her numbers the applause was prolonged and tumultuous, so much so at the finale the Madame returned a smile of gratification.
Calve in vaudeville appears to combine the first and last word in classical repertoire for the varieties. Her song list for this week is an ideal one in its class. Nothing better than Deraulede's "Le Clairon" has ever been done by an operatic star on the vaudeville stage. An English translation is "The Trumpeter." It's a dramatic song recital. In vaudeville technically. It would be called a descriptive character number affording Calve the range in singing and acting vaudeville likes. The song should remain a permanent item in her twice-daily repertoire. While Alfred Megerlin, a foreign violinist, played an obligato, Calve changed to Carmen costume, closing her act proper with a Bizet number, encoring with "Suwanee River" and again responding with a little aria, minus musical accompaniment. She opened with a Gounod serenade.
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Variety, 38:2 (03/12/1915)