No “ravishing beauty”: she wears a mask and “a near view of the lower part of her face makes one joyed that the upper is shut from view”. The “feature is really the mask”.
stage is cluttered. All 9 in troupe on stage throughout. Male dancers should have stage to themselves during solos. That would “stand the audience on their heads”
the 6 sisters do Chinese dances and finish with a Hungarian dance “entirely devoid of the fire and abandon that are the chiefest charms of this style of dance.”
She is “the most marvellous American toe dancer”. She “gives indication of pain while on her toes, relaxing into a smile only with an effort”
do a “rough house” dance – a “violent exercise” Miss O’Neill is growing stouter and Guyer thinner. But her weight at least “does not appear at the extremes”