Texas Guinan * Texas Guinan: Texas Guinan KO-ed R.K.O.

TEXAS GUINAN was grand but double bookings at her nightspot in Valley Stream and at the R.K.O. Palace became far too stressful even for her. They had even offered to pay generously but Tex decided to decline. When she cancelled, the R.K.O. went scurrying around for other headliners. And her Long Island phone number (Valley Stream 4866) rang and rang.
• • The Daily Star printed this scoop (pg 16) on Monday evening, 8 July 1929.
• • "Texas Guinan Cancelled" • •
• • Texas Guinan cancelled a week at the Palace at $8,000 beginning today. Several booking agents are in danger of losing their franchises. The R.K.O. were sent scurrying around for other headliners, all because La Guinan is doing so well at her road house, the Show Place, in Valley Stream, L.I., that she does not wish to jeopardize her success out there by playing extra shows in New York and tiring herself out.
• • The mix-up all happened when Texas Guinan's agents and managers, eager to please Texas, pencilled her in at the Palace at $7,500 for one week beginning July 6. They expected that she was to appear, and Sunday at the Palace, besides two at Valley Stream, which La Guinan felt unable to do and give her full personality and pep to the audience.
• • Through misunderstandings, it was expected that she was to appear, and when officials heard that she said, "no," after advertisements had been sent out, they raised the price offered to $8,000. But the final word is that Guinan is not to appear.

• • Source: Daily Star; published on Monday evening, 8 July 1929.

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• • The legal battles fought by Mae West and Jim Timony are dramatized in the play "Courting Mae West: Sex, Censorship, and Secrets," set during the Prohibition Era. Texas Guinan is in some scenes, too. Watch a scene on YouTube.
• • Website for all things Mae West: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com

• • Exciting Texas Guinan news is on the horizon. More anon.
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