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...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...
...Ruby Keeler, earnest, elbowed tap dancer, was discovered by Tex Guinan, and danced at El Fay, onetime Guinan night club...
...Texas Guinan's Mimic Helen Morgan's Merry-Go-Round Blue Hour Charm Furnace Ferndale Don Royale Silver Slipper Jungle Luigi's Beaux Arts Frivolity European Greenwich Social La Frera Knight The raiders were 100 Federal agents, picked from distant districts, whom Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran ordered to Manhattan in February to "get the lay." In couples and squads and single, well-dressed and well-heeled, they had ingratiated themselves with night club proprietors. Helen Morgan, actress-hostess, was angered to discover that the "Mr. & Mrs. Lon Tyson" whom she had played with for weeks...
Such serious scientists as Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed curator of reptiles at the N. Y. Zoological Park, and Miss Nellie Louise Condon, president of the Reptile Study League agreed with Dr. do Amaral. Salty sportsmen and story-tellers (Don Marquis, Owen P. White, Tex Rickard, Texas Guinan, Tex O'Reilly, William O. McGeehan) thought the Butantan biologist bigoted; suspected him of prohibition interests...
...post-Volstead nomenclature; Banker Streeter* supplies a startling opinion of what 1928 will do for Big Business; Florenz Ziegfeld dissertates on his favorite topic; poems flow from many a pen of unquestioned talent; and, to choose from a multitude of other writings what may be most significant, famed "Texas" Guinan sets down on paper an intense, concise, illuminating treatise on inebriety in its various manifestations. Despite the presence of some serious content, the almanack succeeds in being splendidly, entertainingly insane...