Guila Adams

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GUILA ADAMS
READER

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Above everything else.  Guila Adams' program might be characterized as WHOLE-SOME.  She deals with literature, as an inspiration to higher thoughts, wider sympathies and kindlier deeds—as well as a means of affording pleasant and refreshing recreation.

After studying with leading teachers of the country, Miss Adams took her final course in a school of acting—the American Academy of Dramatic Art, in New York City.  She has taught in a number of schools and colleges and for two years headed the Dramatic Art Department of Horner Institute of Kansas City, Mo.

During her 8 years on the platform, by sparing neither pains nor expense, she has gained the unique reputation of presenting a strictly individual program—consisting of cuttings and arrangements of her own making, not in use by any other platform artist, and of monologues written for her exclusive use.

Her negro dialect is in a class by itself, and she enjoys the distinction of being the only woman in the Lyceum to have had her work reproduced on the Edison.

It was during a season of parlor-readings in New York City that Dorothy Dix, the writer, upon hearing Miss Adams exclaimed: You are wonderful — just wonderful!  You belong on the stage.  But Miss Adams prefers the Lyceum because, as she explains, it brings me into closer touch with my audiences.  I like to shake hands and get acquainted; I love people!.  It is this love for people, no doubt, that explains her ability to portray character with such remarkable human understanding.  Therein lies her success.

When the war came on, Miss Adams abandoned the Lyceum and Chautauqua platform and devoted her time to entertaining the soldiers in the various camps.  Moreover, she proved herself a real soldier and established a record for quick action, when she consented to go overseas on a day's notice.  The request came by telegraph.  In 24 hours she was on the way and for ten months, as Miss Adams expresses it, in the camps and hospitals of England, France and Germany I had the honor of appearing before the grandest audiences in the world!


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Yir worse than Simon, the Pharisee, for Mary was nae kin tae him—
Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush.

Would you shpeak 'em a little louder onc't?  I can't catch 'em.




Laughing ain't wrong and happiness ain't wrong—you don't think of anything very wrong when you're laughing.  Try it some time and see.—
from The Perfect Lady.




GUILA ADAMS

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Miss Adams was greeted with a storm of applause.  From the time she appeared upon the platform until the closing number of the program, she held the close attention of the delighted audience.—
Kewanee (Ill.) Daily Star-Courier.


Miss Adams is a reader of rare skill and a royal entertainer.  She captivated her audience right from the start and held them thus thru-out the entire program.—
Franklin (Neb.) Sentinel.


The dramatic recital given by Miss Guila Adams of Kansas City.  Tuesday evening at the Opera House was splendid and was the best recital of its kind ever given here.  She is a reader of rare ability—
Belleville Telescope.


During the Chautauqua season of 1918.  Miss Guila Adams gave her program in the afternoon, and her popularity was indicated in practically every town when a great many people invariably asked Miss Adams to read just one more piece in the evening.  People who had not attended in the afternoon heard about Miss Adams and her clever work and they also insisted that they be given an opportunity of hearing Miss Adams, although she was not regularly on the evening program.—
Redpath-Horner Chautauquas, of Kansas City, Mo.

It is out of appreciation for your three splendid programs that I am writing you.  My friends voice the same opinion as do I, viz: Your entertainments were the most pleasing of any given at this camp.
Your work is worthy of any eulogy that a person is able to give.
This letter is endorsed by numerous friends of mine who were present during the entertainments and it is for them as well as for myself that I thank you sincerely for the trouble to which you went in giving all of our boys an opportunity of hearing your.—Sincerely yours.  Elbert L. Dodds, Co. D. Hq. Bn., G. H. G., A. E. F. December 8, 1918.  Bourges, France.


Miss Guila Adams proved to be one of the most popular numbers of our eight-day Chautauqua.  Her program was full of pep and she held the rapt attention of her vast audience to the last word.—
Beloit (Kas.) Daily Call.


She is a reader of marked ability, and her appropriate selections and happy renditions captured her audiences, which was evinced by prolonged and the heartiest applause ever given by our people.—
Clarksville (Mo.) Banner-Sentinel.


No more delightful entertainer, nor one more likely to fall into the spirit of the affair could have been chosen; Miss Guila Adams was the artist.—
Kansas City (Mo.) Times.


As leading lady with the Harlequin Players.  Miss Adams' finished and sympathetic portrayal of the florist shop girl, who combines business with an intense interest in the joys and sorrows of her customers, has won much favorable comment.  She has handled the abundant comedy and sentiment in the role most capably.—
Kansas City Star.




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