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Princess Rajah performs two dance numbers that have no counterparts. In her first number, the "Cleopatra Dance," she plays the Egyptian Queen in a "weird Oriental" dance in which she plays with a live snake. The Princess takes liberties with the storyline. The dance is fascinating but at times creepy. At the end she encounters a statue of her dead lover, Marc Antony, and allows the snake to bite her. The second number is the "Arabian Chair Dance" in which the strength of her jaw is amazing. Never touching the chair with her hands she swirls and swings the substantial looking chair around simply grasping it with her teeth.
Both dances are elaborately staged. Her rather large company assist well in the act. It is needless to say that both these dances were a hit.
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Boston Daily Globe (04/13/1915)