Texas Guinan * Texas Guinan: Texas Guinan: Passing Show of 1912

The live performance of TEXAS GUINAN and the rest of the cast of Broadway's musical "The Passing Show of 1912" was critiqued by various entertainment critics. California journalist Josephine Hart Phelps wrote this review.
• • "The Passing Show of 1912" • •
• • Here's a short selection of what Josephine Hart Phelps wrote: There is such an ample and diversified programme in "The Passing Show" and it is so rich with specialists that to select instances of particularly entertaining bits is like trying to pick out the biggest raisins in a plum pudding.
• • Trixie Friganza, of course, stands out preeminently among the women. Next to her comes Adelaide, an exceptionally graceful and spirited pantomimic dancer, who, with her male partner, Hughes, gives a brief play similar in conception and treatment to the pantomimic pieces presented by the Russian dancers, and, like them, is aesthetically beautiful and sensuously poetical. The other girls in the company do not count individually, being bunchable on the ground of looks, and legs, and raucous voices.
• • Perhaps Texas Guinan ought to be excepted • •
• • Perhaps Texas Guinan ought to be excepted, as she captains the fair choral company whenever it parades the runway, and gives a closer view of its charms to devotees in the audience. But Texas Guinan, tall and showy though she is, and standing out like a bright thread in the general glittering weave, has not risen to the dignity of praiseworthy individual achievement. Her voice is too distressing to cue pleasure either in songs or dialogue, a fault that might be remedied by industry and practice. And when we fall back on her looks and her shape, she is one with the rest. . . .

• • Source: Review written by Josephine Hart Phelps for The Argonaut; published on 12 July 1913.
• • The Toronto Sunday World printed several images from "The Passing Show" on 15 December 1912. Here's one of cast member Texas Guinan.
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• • The legal battles fought by Mae West and Jim Timony are dramatized in the play "Courting Mae West: Sex, Censorship, and Secrets," set during the Prohibition Era. Texas Guinan is in some scenes, too. Watch a scene on YouTube.
• • Website for all things Mae West — http://MaeWest.blogspot.com

• • Exciting Texas Guinan news is on the horizon. More anon.
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