The one person, very
much out of the ordinary, was lanky Charlotte Greenwood, of the long limber arms and those marvelous legs which she raises
and lowers in great stiff sweeps like solemn semaphores. When the end came, with
a racing shadowgraph of the whole company behind a white curtain, Miss Greenwood’s shade stood pensive as a stork and
waved us a sad farewell in a characteristic manner. - Henry Taylor Parker, Boston Evening Transcript, reviewing The
Passing Show of 1912
Miss Greenwood would probably be quite as funny as she is at present were she less of the skyscraper type of
beauty. She has the real vis comica, not merely the force to shoot her
left foot into the air while she carefully guides it to a halt with her left hand. - New York Sun
But then there is Charlotte Greenwood, blowing through the show like a gale of fresh wind.... the lanky comedienne is a first rate actress who would do herself proud in a genuine comedy which did not require
her meditatively to stroke the ceiling with her toe. - Alexander Woollcott, The New Yorker
Her art is as definite and sometimes as delicate as Chaplin’s. - Ashton Stevens,
Chicago Herald-American
Miss Greenwood ... the human semaphore, the animated Beardsley drawing who burst upon us in So Long Letty.... She is a true comedienne and not a low burlesquer.
- Charles Collins, Chicago Tribune
Miss Greenwood, a long and humorous comedienne, is of course the principal
comic spirit on display. As a joke-cracker, she is superior...and she dances
as does no other dancer in the American drama.... - Percy Hammond, Chicago
Tribune
Charlotte Greenwood is a national institution¾a sure cure
for any sort of blues.
- Edwin Schallert, Los Angeles Times
Some day Miss Greenwood is going to get a real play and if she gets away
from the junk she is doing now I, for one, will be glad to say ‘I told you so.’ - Patterson James, The Billboard
I beg to inform my American colleagues, that I have discovered Charlotte Greenwood¾the actress.
- Hannen Swaffer, London Daily Herald
Miss Greenwood remains as endearing a comedienne
as the theater knows. - Claudia Cassidy, Chicago Journal of Commerce
