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glad sparkle and effervescent gaiety of her peculiar branch of theatrical activity. She is daintily little, and yet exquisitely modelled, and her light foot dances as if dancing were the mere effusion of airy joy, expressed through merriment, but restrained by grace. ... Her voice is of no great compass or power; but she sings with so much expression as to bring out the full meaning of the words. ... Ambition may lurk beneath those careless curls, and the young lady, perhaps, secretly longs to ... turn from the dainty deliciousness of sparkling burlesque to gracious and coquettish comedy. ... Loftus is still so young that much may be hoped from the future career. ... Meanwhile, all may now make acquaintance, at the
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in 1867, one of four singing and dancing daughters born to the touring actor George
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This very talented and very charming actress ... once more … makes a distinctive mark and secures a bewitching triumph. Miss Kitty Loftus is, indeed, the fairy incarnation of the truest spirit of burlesque. She is a tricky sprite and a fantastic elf. She is an embodied lightness, instinct with the
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in London in 1927 having caught influenza some six weeks before. In her will she left £847 6s 10d to her husband.
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when he dropped her as co-star for his West End season of
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