Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-12-02

raiment at times as classic dancers
hold they must, her greatest triumph
comes through her ability to initiate
the personality of famous personages
of the stage. Harry Lauder, Anna
Held, Bessie Mccoy, Gaby Desly and
Isadora Duncan were successfully
presented and the character enact
ments were true to life. Her Lauder
and Held specialties were easily the
best liked so far as artistic turn is
concern, and yet it must be confessed
that the most suggestive thing Miss
Hoffman did was during the Held
imepersonation. And at that, this
bit of suggestive1ess was pulled"
as they say in stage parlance, while
she was attired in the most modish
of ultra modish gowns, and naturally
there were gripping little "Ohs" and
''Mys" echoing over the house.
"Zenobia's Dream dancing d.
-vertissment, was beautifully staged,
plenty of scenic effects and Access
series, and few clothes, but the
graceful manner in which it was
rendered diverted attention to that
which might have been termed
risque. OF the dancing girls whom
Miss Hoffman has pleaced about her,
it can be said that only on the Great
White Way of Broadway has there
ever been such an assemblage. The
numbers are not large numerically,
but very, very large, from the stand
point of beauty, grace and gowning.
There must have been a small
fortune placed in costumes alone.
Naturally next to Miss Hoffman and
vaudeville performance, greater in
terest conferred in Ching Ling Foo
and his company of Orientals. The
willy old Chinaman who has been be-
fore the footlights long before the
present and generation before that
could call the time, is just as clever
as ever, although nearing the three
score and ten mark. His feat of pro-
ducing very large bowl of water
from seemingly no where, was de-
cidedy mystifying. He does few
tricks, but they are real tricks Is.
Miss Chez Toy isrsa ainty little
daugnter x Mandarin land who sings
ANmn1sssf{can songs that have hardly a
race of accent. 1t is very much to
be suspected that the nearest Miss
Toy. who rendered Peg O. My
Heart, in as good manner as any
top line vaudevillian, has hardly
been nearer the Oreent than Frisco,
and from all that may have though
her young life New Worked it around
Pell street.
Leon mo with his grotesque violin
playing proved quite hit. Ino can
play on a violin and uses anything
that is handy for bow.
The Chinese ring and horizontal
bar acts were the cleverest that have
ever been seen in this country. The
juggling act, likewise appealed great
ly. The troupe of Arabs demonstrate !
ed decided ability in whirldwind acri-
battles, but acts such as this have
been seen frequently.
Returning to Miss Hoffman It can
be truly said that her show is a gem
of the vaudeville stage, but it goes
further than a mere vaudeville per-
formance. There is decided novelty |
displayed in every detail, and when
the word georgous is employed for
descriptive purposes, the word Is
used in a genuine sense.
There is quite a display OF the
neither limbs on the part of the cele-
brated dancer and her assistants, but
the American public is coming more
so to witness such performances
from an artistic rather than sensual
Those who adhere to
the Puritanical standards may decry
such exhibitions, but then the great
American public is willing to pay
Miss Hoffman stiff prices and just as
long will she feed them on display
and artistic ability.