Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-15
SPRING DANCES INTO TOWN
HAND-IN-HAND WITH GENEE
Cleverest Of Terpsichoreans Cap
tivates Spectators at New
ark Theatre.
GOOD ATTRACTIONS AT THE
OTHER LOCAL PLAYHOUSES
ProctOr's, American, VALID
mann's and Miners Please
Large Crowds.

IT o SEE, Genee dance is to sit open
mouthed before the wonder of
her lightness and grace. TO
attempt TO describe her performance
is to helplessly grope for appropriate
adjectives.
Last nights big audience in the New
ark Theatre found itself spellbound.
Her magic was felt from the moment
she first appeared, as the fairy of the
Christmas tree, to smile and nod her
golden curls, n then to twinkle on
the tippiest tips of her toes down a
long running board to the footlights.
where a dainty pantomimical dance,
Including the display to Santa Claus
Of her magical powers, was executed
with the lightness of a bit of thistle
down. Yf.
Then she was gone reappearing in a
second in a siiken sailor costume. to
execute a %hornpipeg the like of which
was never seen on sea. 1t seemed as
though she could dance on the palm of
ones outstretched hand without letting
her weight be felt. Another
and she was a gay little soldier,
marching and maneuvering on her toe
tips as Ii she really liked it, and then,
long. long before her watchers were
ready to ave her go, she was again
the Christmas fairy, twinkling back up
the board to the top of the big spruce
tree, kissing her finger tips goodby be-
fore she went away to. the Fairyland,
where She truly Belonged.
Later she appeared in the centre OF
a complicated ballet rs the Spirit of
Champagne seeming to gain in grace
and agility with every second, but her
<,.ax ofc.-4 .. q
poetry qf motion when she danced a
'spripgtime sreyerie..' It would be more
appropriate to say she was a spring.
time reverie. One forgot that she was
dancing, and that those light, wonder
fully easy steps were the result of
long, patientsyears of hard, hard prac-
tise. Genee is wonderful. She is just
"Genee." @
Other honors in 1.-THE Silver Star are
carried off by George Bickel and Harry
Watson, as an eccentric professor and
doctor, respectively, who introduce a
young girl for whom they have cared
since her ~babyhood to Mr.. Wiseheimer,
a rich Jew, whose child was stolen
when she was an infant, as his own
daughter. proving her identity by
means of a silver star which she was
supposed to nave worn about her neck
when lost, but which was really given
TO them by Mr.. Wiseheimer's secretary,
who fondly hoped for a substantial re-
ward for the f1nd.
The professor n doctor receive the
reward. which they divide. leaving the
secretary out. He then proceeds to in
troduce several other daughters all
armed with similar stars. Complioa-
tons galore ensue, which are. straight
ened out m~iraculously just in time for
the final curtain, which proves how
clever the writers of musical comedies
are. The author of this particular eff
fort is Harry B.. Smith.
Mr.. Bickel and Mr.. Watson are
moderately funny most of the time,
and exceedingly funny in a clarionet
n trombone duet. appropriately en-
titled "A Collection of Blue Notes"
Miss Emma Janvier is her usual clever
self as. Mrs. Vera Willing. a widow
who must be married In short order
so as to keep her fortune. Ali of the
other principals are decidedly ade-
quate, and the chorus is unusually
graceful and pretty The scenery is
elaborate.
ADELINE STANLEY cARRICK.