Show Cecilia Loftus Pantages Headliner I i il t I Y t t I i ss 1 s sI I a tie ti- ti I e I J I z tj Ceh I P ef i I Famous Mimic of Great Characters Entertains Capacity Harry Lauder Sophie Tucker Tuck r the Duncan sisters rs Fanny Brice Bert Williams Jeanne Eagels and Whispering Smith are at Pantages Pantages Pan Pan- theatre this week Not In i Jerson erson of course but inthe In Inthe the uncanny rt of mimicry which is one of the man many theatrical gifts of Cecilia Loftus who faced a Portland Port Port- land audience last week after a lapse of nearly twenty years and moved It to deep laughter and the borderland of tears by the genius which time and life have tailed failed to toscar toscar scar flays Bays the Portland critic In her superb artistry the brilliant bril- bril Ilant but diverse personalities she Imitates are created before ones one's eyes In the perfection of every little gesture and shade of tone in singing or speaking olce But It is as presumptuous to announce the fact that Cissie Loftus' Loftus is a great dramatic dramatic dra- dra matic artist as to herald to the world that Susanne Lenglen can I play tennis Gertrude Ederle is a capable swimmer or Is a good dancer She opens her act at the piano In her impressions of Jack Smith the whispering baritone singing Cecilia Smith won his greatest I popularity singing In his ing throaty way for the radio microphone microphone micro micro- phone and the phonograph record Next Bert Williams ranked as the best of all colored comedy sIngers singers sIng sIng- ers shuffles to the footlights and sings his hit Nobody Miss Loftus Loftus' has captured every singing Inflection Inflection tion of his plaintive rumbling notes th the clumsy yet eloquent waves of his big white gloved hands and the tape of his giant shoes From Bert Willams she goes to the dialect of Fanny Brice In a satire of doleful Russian tragedy I She plays two parts In this skit keeping the dialogue going between Fanny and a melancholy Muscovite who might have rowed stroke for forthe forthe the Volga boatmen Next In the parade come the Duncan Duncan Dun Dun- I can sisters In the big scene from I their musical comedy version of Uncle Toms Tom's Cabin Then to an illusion of the skirl of the pipes and anda a swish of kilts comes Sir Harry Lauder lapping Capping his gnarled stick as ashe ashe he laughs of what happens when he meets Mackay and later sings of the delights of Roam in In the Here MIss Loftus breaks her imi- imi of stars with a couple of stories of children As a a. test of the versatility of Miss Loftus try to imagine Ethel Barrymore or Marilyn farilyn Miller putting ovex the uproarious uproarious up- up tale bout about what happened to little Willie when they wanted him to sleep In a little girls girl's nightie Miss Loftus closes with Sadie Thompsons Thompson's denunciation scene with the Rev Davidson In the second act of Rain as Jeanne Eagels played It It Is a thrilling fiery piece of emotional acting |