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TEXAS GUINAN helped build the careers of many stars. Let's learn more about Lina Basquette.
• • "Nite Clubs as Cradles Right" • •
• • Variety wrote this: Which reminds us that night clubs are the cradles of future stars of the stage. They offer more opportunity to ambitious young girls than does the stage. We could cite innumerable instances, but let us just point to Lina Basquette, whom we once placed with Texas Guinan in the Beaux Arts; Feon Vanmar, a sensation in "Merry Malones"; Irene Belroy, who was a star, however, before she went into the El Fey Club; Frances Upton, and her successor, Helen Stephen, both of whom were placed in night clubs by us; Alice Bolden, Ruby Keeler, Madelyn Killeen, and scores of others.
• • Variety wrote this: Night clubs encourage girls doing specialties, and the stage offers scant opportunity for individual work.
• • Source: item in Variety Magazine, "Times Square" column; published on Wednesday, 1 February 1928

• • Lina Basquette [19 April 1907 — 30 September 1994] was an American actress and dancer noted for her 75-year career in entertainment, which began during the silent film era.
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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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