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heroine, the Galoeh, resembles all other dance heroines
in style and dress, as does also her lady-in-waiting,
here called the Inia; she may have two other younger
attendants as well, called, as in Gamboeh, Bajan and
Sangit, and distinguished from the Inia by slight differences
in dress.
The Limboer introduces a type peculiar to Ardja. She
is a mature, strong minded woman with a rather masculine
style, deep determined voice, and certain male elements
in her sumptuous but often ungraceful dress., This is
a favorite role for certain female impersonators. It
is not necessarily unsympathetic, though it generally
has a nuance of intrigue, and a certain eccentricity
expressed by manly voice and commanding gestures, sudden,
arbitrary accents of wrist and shoulder, and surprising
fluctuations of the body. Each character has its own
special cadence and manner of singing, and that of the
Limboer is often particularly splendid
The
peculiarity of her speech is that she intones a whole
phrase on one note; dropping a little on the last syllable.
She may be the mother or foster-mother of any of the
principal characters. Her part may therefore be doubled,
for there arc occasions on which two of them are provided
with a Limboer. She has an attendant called Desak, whose
head-dress and manner are always slightly peculiar,
sometimes even eccentric. The Limboer may, however,
appear without her Desak, or she may have two, each
with distinctive names and peculiarities of gesture-perhaps
only an unexpected accent of lifted eyebrow, and a wayward
intonation which establishes a sense of strangeness.
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