"Not Convincing as a Drama"

“Miss Garden has made a new and striking impersonation as the heroine of this opera. She has conceived the Indian maiden as a very intense and serious young person. She is lithe and stealthily active in her movements, and even in her passion for the American officer and her devotion to Barbara—a devotion that leads her to the last verge of self-sacrifice—there is much of the savage. She executes the ‘Dagger Dance’ with feline grace and celerity.” [New York Times]