The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-18
SHE HELPED ROMANCE.
Star of 1.-THE kissing Grip Tells OF
Convent Experience.

| Miss Texas Guinan, the Denver girl
star of 1.-THE kissing Girl was in a
particularly bright mood on the coca
| sion of the presentation of the bill at
the Grand last night Not only was
| she full of animation in the Viennese
opera which she headed, but as she
stood in the stage wings she dubbed
over e.azv as4
| She told a story: of romance in
(which genuine kiss figured, as she
stood there It was this way:
! 1.-THE prettiest romance ever
watched in its course to happy matri-
monial elimination is before me every
day in the form of a picture on my
morning room wall. A man with a
scholarly face, a sweet faced woman
| in one of those beruffied white frocks
that are distinctly English in style,
| chubby boy and a sedate old collie
make UP the group and every time I
glance that way I think that some of
my shortcomings will be forgiven be-
cause of my having helped on that lit
tie romance.
| sIt was in our salad days, and very
green salad, too, when the girl in the
white gown and I were pupils in the
same Montreal convent Like all girls,
we were enve1oped in a filmy cloud of
ambitions. I was to become a star,
and my chum, who had a clever pen,
would write for me the great Ameri-
i can drama. Then came night when,
under a severe chaperon. we attended
a social function and met a nephew of
the hostess, then a struggling barriS-
tier, fresh from England and without a
| brief. I said the chaperon was Sc
Ivere and strict, but never was a chap
eron keen enough to outwit Dan Cupid,
ESPECIALLY ifothe latter is aided by a
romantic girl friend It was I who
/ he1ped to smuggle correspondence be-
tween the two even though 1 saw the
great American drama fading out of
Isight. I was her bridesmaid. running
| away from my first New York en-
gagement to play the more real role,
and coming back to the pomps and
vanities of stage life with more ten
Ider feeling for all mankind
| Now the husband is located in New
York and the home is in a veil known
summer colony on Long Island. There
II go when weary of the strenuous
stage life, with its jealousies and dis
appointments. it's gaieties and its tri-
umphs, and everyone makes me well
come from the busy lawyer to the
collie"
| Miss Guinan easily is the hardest
working member of the cast. which,
taken from a professional standpoint
| is a capable. one Faults were to be
found in the bill, but with few excep-
lions it was not with the work of stage
folk employed in the presentation.
Miss Guinan, though lacking som e.
1 what in vocal attainment. has a per-
sona1 charm that wins the audience
from the start. also her capability as
an actress is shown from her first en-
trance until the close OF. the bill.
| Louis London. in the baritone role.
sang exceedingly well, while Harry
Hermsen, a comedian of the Cincin-
natl school, gave deft treatment to his
part. Thomas, Whiffen, as the more
or less disconsolate lover. stood out
as an actor who can bring out such a
part and Miss Venita Fitzhugh lent
dignity and a contraito voice that was
pleasing.
| Toe dancing was introduced by Mile.
Vanity. Her other name was not on
the bills. 1t was pleasing to some. to
/ others it was not. though profession
/ ally it was not without fault.
| zTuneful music also went to make the
entertainment pleasing 1t was in the
same classification as Madam Butter
fly and 1.-THE Merry Widow" though
not reaching the same standard.