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The stage is darkened at the opening1, except for a square opening in the back drop through which is seen La Camargo in her boudoire dressing for the masquerade ball.
She and a waiting maid sing snatches of a chanson in the process of dressing, and presently arrives Pierrot.
While the dressing and singing proceed, he wanders about the vacant stage pursued by a relentless spotlight, and gesticulating in a forlorn attempt to make something or other plain in pantomime. After about eight minutes of this, La Camargo comes out upon the stage and the pair dance, while the maid leans from the boudoire window and warbles in French.
There is nothing to the dance that we have not seen repeatedly. Pierrot does not carry himself with conspicuous grace. The act's greatest asset is the personal beauty of La Camargo, and that is not startling enough to support the number in the absence of any other merit. It opened the bill at the Grand Opera House and will probably be lucky to even remain in that position.
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Variety 10:3 (10/19/1907)