Word: guinan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broad, chortling voice, in a scarlet dress, in her latest Manhattan night club, sang, last week, famed Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. She had just been acquitted by a U. S. jury of a prohibition charge. She had returned to her own world to celebrate her freedom. A brass band preceded her. Her "suckers" (patrons) rose en masse to cheer her entrance. She kissed everybody in sight. The smoky air was thick with vindictive joy. Harry Thaw, onetime maniac, hysterical with delight, jigged up and down at his table until Miss Guinan led him out on the floor to introduce...
...locale for more pictures than any other background except the western plains, there has not been one yet in which the patrons neglected to throw confetti or paper streamers, or to rise and cheer when the hostess, with a roll of drums, tripped in. Even now when Texas Guinan, perched on a chair-back with her suckers around her, invokes an atmosphere indisputably authentic, the public is not allowed to forget that her grown son, whom she has not seen for years, will presently turn up and be accused, at the moment he is recognized by her, of a murder...
Mary Louise Guinan ran away from Denver in 1904 with a reporter whom she married and later left to join a musical show. Remarkable for the resonance of her voice after midnight, she became famous after 20 years in vaudeville, stock, and westerns, as hostess of her own Manhattan night-club-the El Fay. An El Fay waiter sold a bottle to a customer with a badge and the club was given a padlock and a front-page story. In a new club Hostess Guinan continued to greet her friends with "Hello, Johnny" and her paying clients with "Hello, sucker...
...Wrong. Sin and gin will not help The Nation. Mr. Broun himself has been helped by neither. Tex Guinan has not helped him to courage, or wit, or passion or greatness. A Broadway night club is not a nursery for brave thinking...
...most interpreted of religions reaches a fitting finality of paradox nowhere so thoroughly as in the celebration of the birth of its founder. Christmas embraces a variety of activity bounded at last only by the mistletoe of the Druids and the tinkling jewelry of Texas Guinan. Those who bear the costliest gifts and those who humbly pray in the chill obscurity of the cell both sight the same event as test for their expression of honor and devotion...