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“A change of costume brought her back in her familiar blue tasselated dress with which went the number ‘I’m Just Wild About That Kind of Love.’ A coat of orange and black over a white suit was the dressing for a characteristic Tanguay song called ‘Personality,’ wherein the singer explained to the audience that she possessed that quality along with Roosevelt and a few of the other world’s bright lights.”
"I'd Like to be an Animal in the Zoo" is another new one, a very silly set of lyrics, set to conventional music and accompanied by a hideously grotesque dance."
"Monday evening the cyclonic one did not establish those relations with her audience which have been the common thing with her.Swiftly as she finished her fifth song the announcement cards were changed and although there was scattered applause, the comedienne did not take advantage of it for a single bow."
"The former 'Follies' star is sadly in need of material. She opens with a wild, grotesque medley of operatic, patriotic and popular tunes accompanied by jerky lyrics highly laudatory of Tanguay."
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Variety, May 26 1910