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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoofing, Texas, Li'l Darlin' is sporadic and seldom adept. It shines brightest in Johnny Mercer's lyrics, notably about private secretaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...musical at the Colonial, "Texas, Li'l Darlin'," starts off promisingly enough. After the overture, a lantern slide of the cover of a large picture magazine, similar to "Life," is flashed upon a screen, to the accompaniment of March of Time-type music and the pontifical voice of a news commentator. The idiocyncrasies of the Luce Press are favorite sport among the satirists this season anyhow, and so--you say to yourself, perhaps--here is musical comedy's own gay potshot at grey-eyed, balding China-born Henry Luce. But disillusionment, as occasionally it must to all theatergoers, came last...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

Kenny Delmar, who appears on radio as Senator Claghorn, is making his stage debut in "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" as Hominy Smith, a dishonest, scripture-quoting State Senator in the Lone Star State. Mr. Delmar turns out to be a good actor and his Hominy Smith is a more toned-down characterization than Claghorn, and also more amusing. Unfortunately, Mr. Delmar can not sing, and this being a musical, he is occasionally called upon to do what...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...might be surmised from the title--"Texas, Li'l Darlin'"--and the foregoing commentary, the plot makes no noticeable effort to avoid the cliches apparently inherent in a Texas theme. Though I do not share in the anti-Texas feeling one hears frequently voiced, it does seem that a whole evening devoted to variations on this single theme is too much to ask of anyone. All of the other rural jokes are there, too: the Scars, Roebuck catalogue, the outhouses are good for two laughs, and so on. Several of the lines are of questionable taste, and one remark goes...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...Texas, Li'l Darlin'" is nicely costumed, has some good dancing and an energetic and talented cast. By a great deal of work some good may come of it. But as it stands now, it is considerably below the level of some of the less-successful Pudding shows, and a good deal like some of them in that it falls between two chairs. Of course, the girls are real in this...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

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