Texas Guinan * Texas Guinan: Texas Guinan: Belmont Theatre

Oh for those days when TEXAS GUINAN offered the hints of world-class whoopee at the Belmont Theatre.
• • "Tex May Make Club of Belmont Theatre" • •
• • Variety wrote: Texas Guinan may take over the Belmont, New York, under lease from Richard Herndon and establish it as a Continental night place. Although the seats are to be ripped out, the little boxes at the rear would be retained. The balcony is also to be left, with stairways ending upward from the revamped floor. Texas Guinan is going over plans for remodeling the place with Herb Ward.
• • Variety wrote: The Belmont is next door on West 48th Street to the upstairs club that was once Texas Guinan's, afterwards the Chez Florence Club [117 West 48th Street] and since then having various names and managements. House seats a little over 500. Has not had a legit success for several seasons.

• • Belmont Theatre, 121-125 West 48th Street, New York, NY 10036
• • Source: "Legitimate" column in Variety; published on Wednesday, 4 June 1930
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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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