Word: guinan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Motley is the color of such semipolitical commentators are Will Rogers, Mayor James J. Walker. Cartoonists "Ding" and Briggs. Texas Guinan...
...lank, laughing person of Eleanor Shaler, stops off at a night club long enough to see a vivid, dramatic voodoo dance in silhouette, trails off into close harmonies and ends up about a mile ahead of anything Times Square has confected this midsummer, with the possible exception of Texas Guinan's Padlocks...
Padlocks of 1927. Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan, queen-mother of the night clubs, shunted her honkytonk furies into the Shubert Theatre to dispense the usual small attentions with large-scale intimacy. She makes her entrance riding down the aisle on a white Arabian horse. Her locally famed "girlies" rush out among the audience, pelting them with cotton balls. Miss Guinan herself is in the aisles as often as on the stage, shaking hands, bantering wisecracks, kissing bald pates that clearly answer for her rouged caresses. While she is changing costumes, vaudevillians take the stage-Jans & Whalen of the Keith circuit...
Bare Facts of 1927. Down in a triangular cellar of Greenwich Village, where the stage and audience are crowded close together, another little "intimate" revue has cropped up. It jests ineffectually about such phenomena as Aimee Semple McPherson, the Theatre Guild and Texas Guinan...
President Coolidge and "Texas" Guinan, Manhattan night club proprietress, were strangely linked by the New Student (intercollegiate clipsheet). Each had refused to give interviews to freshmen competitors for the editorial board of the Princetonian (undergraduate daily). President Coolidge was speciously said to be reluctant to meet "a reporter from a college with Princeton's strong Democratic traditions." Proprietress Guinan was wary because Prohibition agents had once used the ruse of a college youth seeking an interview to hand her an injunction which padlocked one of her raucous night clubs...