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Character songs and impersonations.
"Eye," and "Suzanne."
Katherine Murray, on early, held up a fresh face that was good to meet, and girlishly jaunted through a aeries of diversified character numbers, all light and all made to order for vaudeville. The girl has a chic juvenility which modifies any defects in her delivery, as she has the personality of a growing girl rather than that of a "kid" comedienne who rawly plays precocity or a hardened soubret who. bends her weight to put over naughty suggestions. Her ingenuousness is natural; that technique, cannot be acquired. With appropriate variations of costume, Miss Murray sang "Eyes." then "Suzanne," then imitated Frances White, then impersonated a Childs' waitress, then ended with a "shimmy" ditty. "Suzanne" is not for her, as it is too deep to fit her. The waitress song is a gem, better even than Irene Franklin's, and it would tear the seats up at the Winter Garden. Miss Murray should by all means close with it The shimmy, however, la no weak sister, and the girls' girlish way of wriggling her slender
shoulders is delightfully daring. Miss Murray was recalled for several bows. She easily
earned a stronger position.
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Variety, 54:8 (04/18/1919)