The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-07
Genee' Shortcomings as Actress
 OUerlooked in Grace as Dancer

ment of Adelins oenes's wonderful
 fastened on firmly, under the incite. activfties. But the violence isn't in
 the least vicious. The earliest record of sirenic dancing. that of Saiome be- fore her royal stepfather. has had de- plorabfy rude exploitation lately. Bare
 iimbed exhibitions in the guise of
 classic art have been made by several bold young women. But Genee makes no pernicious appeal. Her dances are
 as innocent as a kittens play or a lambs gambol. She isn't beautiful,
 but almost pretty. with bright face and a symmetrtcal form. She isn't the young girl that she was twenty years ago. but time has steeled her muscles
 without stiffening them: she is yer liable gymnast at ieaping and bound ing; and she Ia as graceful in her ath- ietic feats as any waltzing belle in ballroom. We are told that Fanny Els
 Ter looked as modest in skirts that stopped at her knees as other women s,a
 were though ,draped down to their heels. That Is true of this Genee. She is a wonder.
 If seems to me worth s2 and three
 hours to lind out. by seeing MT. Lodo
 of Koal," which of Williams and
 Walker was the funny fellow. The
 puzzle has been the same for me witn
 many couples. of whom four have iost
 their more amusing halves by paraiyt- fc maladles. I am glad to know that
 .ha Rert williams who outiasts Walk
 er ia the shuffiing. slouching. naturally comic and artistically accomplished darkey of the two. He gets along Just as well without an interlocutor. As
 Mr lI,odo. of the Island of koai. ne
 takes the throne of an abducted king
 H,a usual song of lugubrious com nlaint this time gives verse to eacn of many hard-luck mfshaps ana ,I,s rns refrain is That was plenty. M company shades of from his own pia.A a soot of cork to the cream color oi vv toroon show girls In a very cos''s tasteiy investure. ..ra,vd,v in to a certain point. Of course MISS Harris may retort that am mistake \, en ! that she is not the rafson. detre-.ne why 1t fs--and also financial cause and e6tect with Idols" Last winter ii oot about in the more luxurious, putterinr circles of New York tna' I.eonere Harris, the former showgirl purposed returning to the stage as an emotional actress. Visions or eAua- yaRant self exploitation in roie ny n. shorter or less dominant than u Barry were natural. But the pruhet. beauty did not fall into the trap tns, has caught and held the money oi many another ambitious novice. Any one not in the know would see no kthing out of the ordinary in the an. nouneement of "Idols" with Mabe Roebuck. formerly leading actress fol James K. Hackett as the only ont | of three or four of the leading player
 to get prominence above the others. For her purpose. Patsy" Hari chose her play we'll Roy Harri' mans dramatization of William J | Lockess engrossing novel, gives sucl ta1ting opportunities in the Feminine l role of secondary Importance that Ibrifffafitiy met fnfsht S6vershadow al the others. It is matter of one scen' | of the, i've; for the rest the part negligible Patsy" assigned to Mis- Roebuck thes character of the wifi | who worships idols in the manly form of her husband that bosom friens