Texas Guinan: Salon Royal
Oh those days when TEXAS GUINAN offered world-class whoopee at Salon Royal on West 58th Street. [Its new name is the 6 Columbus Hotel, rebuilt on old bones with the same facade.]
• • Variety noted: For a touch of Montmartre on Broadway, there is the unique Tommy Lyman warblng his ballade at the Salon Royal, now has Texas Guinan as co-star.
• • At the Salon Royal — — Texas Guinan, Tommy Lyman, Bigelow and Lee, and Jacques Green Orchestra.
• • In its issue dated for 12 November 1927, The New Yorker wrote: No curfew at New York's rendezvous intime, the Salon Royal, 310 West 58th Street featuring Tommy Lyman, The International Star, and George Whiting.
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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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• • Photo: Texas Guinan • • Salon Royal (still standing) • •
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