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She appears “in brown coloring”, and doesn’t reveal her white arms until the end.
"Yaaka Hula"
"When the Black Sheep Returns"
"Old Kentucky Home"
"They Called it Dixieland"
The finish with "Yaaka Hula" "sent her into a riot, for the audience had no suspicion Miss Russell was other than the mulatto girl she looked".
Overall, the tempo was too slow, but she's a good entertainer.
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Variety, vol. 44: 7. 13 October, 1916