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Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan, Graphic...
...Paul Sweinhart. Last week he wrote: "I've just heard . . . that the crack was made the other morning in a night club that a certain daily newspaper columnist will be bumped off within six months." Broadway's newswise readers associated this warning not with Colyumists Coolidge, Brisbane, Guinan, Broun or a dozen others, but instinctively thought first of Gossip-Colyumist Walter Winchell (TIME, June 17, 1929). New York has heard before the rumor of threats against his life. Not loath to dramatize his position, Colyumist Winchell himself has helped circulate the impression that "some day. . . ." Characteristic...
Among firstnighters were Mary Louise ("Texas') Guinan and James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney. Scholar Tunney went behind between acts, offered Miss Cowl his "fe-li-ci-ta-tions" on a "per-fect-ly de-light-ful'' performance...
Colyumist Guinan...
With something more than a sly wink at Colyumist Calvin Coolidge (TIME, June 30) the New York Evening Graphic, sexy Bernarr Macfadden tabloid, last week began a daily feature by wisecracking Nightclub Hostess Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan.- Headed "Texas Guinan Says" the article is typographically arranged much like "Calvin Coolidge Says" which serious newspapers buy from McClure Newspaper Syndicate. First half-dozen articles were typically in the heavy-handed Guinan manner, supporting her insistence that she was writing every word, employing no "ghost." Excerpts: "Well, Cal, they've got me doing it now. . . . We can work together...