During the entire first part, although the girls are off stage twice, each time long enough to make a costume change, they reappear with the long fancifully colored dresses, until one in the audience is tired beyond expression of seeing them.
(Miss Harvey) She dances well, has a fair voice, reddish hair, good looks, two eat short dresses for her olio act, and makes the hit of the show, but could do better with her songs.
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The Spanish dancer in the piece, which is a number of the “Parisian Widows” olio is La Tierro. Phillipe Du Faure is the bandit in this, as he was also in the other.
A third person, called Senor Garcia, appears, and there is knockabout finish, during which everything movable in the cabin interior setting is pushed over.
Anna Arline is an active young soubrette, but has a penchant for long skirts. Even in the olio, where she wears a red costume with a faded look, the nether garment is long, giving her a squatty appearance.
They have placed sixteen girls in the chorus, given them gorgeous costumes to wear, staged the numbers artistically, have a full complement of principals, obliging the conviction that the “Dainty Duchess” is the most expensive show on the road.
Graceful, light of foot and spirited, she follows the dance given by Dazie
her performance in the red mask is all the more praiseworthy
Mr. Rawson and Miss Clare look the children to the life, and Miss Clare makes an exceptionally pretty girl, a trifle too old in appearance through the dress worn.
The Lavelle Sisters open the olio in ungainly looking cloaks and bonnets, tied with unsightly blue ribbon, afterward changing to neater dress
Comedy, judiciously expounded, is handled by one in a messenger boy’s costume.
