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Dancing women and lighting effects.
"Love's Awakening," "The Dancer's Sacrifice" and "Pastimes of Youth."
Bare-legged young women in "classical" dancesm arranged and staged by Ida Fuller, in the Ida Fuller way, which mean prettiness of action, happily blended lighting effects, and an "atmosphere" over the ensembles that becomes the greatest attraction about the turn. The girls are but puppets; they dress and dance as they are coached. The resultant picture, also picturesqueness, go to Miss Fuller's credit. Anyhow or anyway, Miss Fuller has staged a pretty number for vaudeville. It has music arranged by Daniel Dore. If Miss Fuller is sensible, she will allow Mr. Dore to write some special music for the turn. He does that very well. It might e contrived to speed up a slight dragginess toward the close, immediately preceding the "Pastimes of Youth," although the "stalling" there is required for the change of costumes. This week the act is given the hard position of closing the big, well-balanced and exceptional playing program at the Palace. Miss Fuller's act held up the spot, an unquestioned mark of merit, and that it held the audience goes without saying, for once they caught a flash of those bare-legged ladies-well, no matter whether the wife wanted to beat it immediately, the husband was ready for a battle rather than to miss it. But artistic undraped underpinnings are worth looking at, anywhere, and Ida Fuller has done it-those legs look as well as they kick, besides which they should be able to draw. One nicely formed undraped leg is worth two full-fledged poor war sketches on any bill any day.
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Variety, 38:10 (05/07/1915)