dogs dressed to represent a menagerie.
“parody of well drilled performance” lacking the “smart uniformity” of a typical Weyburn act.
Spear and boomerang throwing. Miss June was once a contortionist and acrobat but her “figure now approaches the voluptuous, and spear throwing at a mark is about the only exercise it permits. She wore tights, however, very acceptably”
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”.
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”