Word: guinan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that ''contrary to the general belief, considerable success was obtained" in her prosecution of New York night clubs (TIME. Aug. 13, 1928). Of 98 defendants, 80 pleaded guilty, 15 were convicted on trial "while only three were acquitted-a doorman and two women entertainers" (Mary Louise ["Texas"] Guinan and Helen Morgan...
...perative" selling of loose (unbottled) milk. The New York milk racket was notable and illustrative by virtue of its central figure, a lank, loose-knit individual named Larry Fay. First taxicabs, then night clubs were Larry Fay's game, the latter in collaboration with famed Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. Loose night clubs are crowded at the same, time of day that loose milk is delivered. When Prohibition closed one after another of his clubs, Larry Fay found it easy to switch to the milk business without any great change in work ing hours. His mistake was in attempting...
...party his status must be either that of host or guest. His best shows were Bombo and Sinbad, his pictures The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool. Last winter he improved his standing by marrying Ruby Keeler, a popular little tap-dancer tutored by Mary Louise (''Texas") Guinan...
...greater social import than the problem of the Vice President's official hostess, is the problem of night-club hostesses in free-&-easy Manhattan, where Assistant Attorney Mabel Walker Willebrandt lately lost her Prohibition cases against the two outstanding personages of nocturnal fame, Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan and Helen Morgan. Manhattanites were interested last week in the following statement by Miss Guinan...
Defendant Guinan pushed through the press to Special Deputy U. S. Attorney-General Norman J. Morrison who had prosecuted her, put out her hand, said: "I want to thank you. You were a perfect gentleman." Shaking the hand, Mr. Morrison mournfully retorted: "You were the toughest customer I ever had." He had been unable to pin on her any technical responsibility for alleged liquor-selling in her "club," where she is merely "employed as hostess...