He was like a subdued De Wolf Hopper, and the audience waited for him to appear again when he left the stage. Montague Brierly, was exceedingly clever. It was entertaining beyond a doubt, but this was mainly owing to the efforts of perhaps three capably eccentric actors and three or four dancers. No such surprising amount of nothing has appeared on a stage here for some time. Those who did go are wondering yet what they say. It was Christmas eve, and Brooklyn people do not attend theatres on the night before Christmas. ‘The attendance at the Academy to see the new musical comedy – it might better be called a farce – A Gaiety Girl, was not great in point of numbers. ( The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, 23 December 1894, p.9a) The present dancers are the successors of Letty Lind and Sylvia Gray, who are still remembered for introducing the blessings of the skirt dance to America, and they are subjects of the same sort of interest.’ The dancing is a special feature of the performance, English burlesques giving much more attention to that feature of their attractiveness than the American entertainments of the same grade do. The piece is a mixture of pretty girls, English humor, singing, dancing and bathing machines and dresses of the English fashion. ‘ The Gaiety Girl, an English burlesque which has attracted a good deal of attention in London and New York, will be brought to the Academy of Music for the whole of this week. ( The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, 16 December 1894, p.9a)
It will appear in The Gaiety Girl that had a run of 300 nights in London and three months at Daly’s theater in New York.’ ‘George Edwardes’ London company will occupy the Brooklyn Academy of Music during Christmas week. ( The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, 23 September 1894, p.8c) The burlesque bases its hope to success on the claim that one dozen of these are beauties.’ ‘ A Gaiety Girl at Daly’s is realistic in that it has two dozen gaiety girls on the stage. A United States tour followed the Broadway run.įlorence Lloyd and Grace Palotta as they appeared in the bathing scene The photograph shows Florence Lloyd and Grace Palotta respectively as Cissy Verner and Ethel Hawthorne in the London Gaiety Theatre Company’s production of A Gaiety Girl at Daly’s Theatre, New York, 18 September 1894. This real photograph cigarette card was issued in England in the late 1890s by Ogden’s in one of their Guinea Gold series. In A Gaiety Girl, Daly’s Theatre, New York, 18 September 1894 Grace Palotta and Florence Lloyd as they appeared in the bathing scene
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