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Ballet performance.
The duet dancing by Galemberti and MOlasso was inspired, no doubt, by the Pavlowa-Mordkin.
A trio of girls have a number by themselves, and the Barabon Troupe of five people are sent forward as the real Russian portion of the turn.
The company is 25 strong, with 16 girls.
The act ran about thirty-five minutes the first matinee. It can become a thirty-minute ballet or a twenty-minute act.
What these girls do, they do well, although at the first two shows, they were called upon to repeat steps.
It would not overshoot the mark to say that this is vaudeville's prettiest production, past or present. It is a ballet and billed to intimate that here are the "Russian Dancers" who Europe raved of.
In the dancing department, the work satisfies eminently, Mr. Molasso himself being the man contributor toward this result.
The act was a success, but some clippings for speed is necessary.
Even though the chorus are home-made rather than from any "Imperial ballet", they show a thorough drilling, and they, with the act, not forgetting also his own important dancing, add greatly to the Molasso laurels.
Mr. Molasso's reputation now among makers of vaudeville acts is about the leader of all producers of productions.
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Variety 20:1 ( September 10, 1906)