very tall
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”
wears Scottish dress
12 “handsome young women” headed by Hilde Carle do a “dazzling series of marches and tableaux” they raised the roof with a volley of rifle fire and concluded by “scaling a high wall in true army style”
“revive all the old burlesque bunco tricks”
Jed’ is Golden’s standard character. Katherine Kittleman played the wife of Whiteman Mott and it did not work as “her husband being very young, and it militated against their scened together, hurting the effect.”
sophisticated comedy
Miss Martinot plays a young widow and she is “decidedly attractive”