Texas Guinan: Gypsyland

Oh those days when TEXAS GUINAN offered world-class whoopee at "Gypsyland" at this address: 133 West 45th Street, New York, NY.  If you wanted a bowl of Hungarian goulash to fortify you for unlimited merriment, it was 35 cents.
• • "New Place for Show Stars!" • •
• • "Gypsyland," successor to the famous institution on 81st Street, which was the most popular place in New York while it lasted, has opened at 133 West 45th street. There isn't any place like it in New York for comfort, homelike surroundings, entertainment, and good food at reasonable prices. It opened but a short time ago, yet it has already been "discovered" by New York's show folks, who flock there nightly.
• • It's a little place, yet so arranged that it's homelike, different from the usual cafe. It seems that everybody knows everybody else, and it's always "one big party."
• • The place was opened two weeks ago with a party given by Texas Guinan for a bevy of political and theatrical friends. Another party was given in honor of Belle Bennett and another for Doraldina. These parties were held in the main restaurant.
• • In addition, there are private rooms for dinner or supper parties up to 20 people.
• • Source:  Broadway Brevities; issue dated for November 1922

• • A 1922 advertisement placed in Broadway Brevities went like this:
• • SOMETHING NEW FOR NEW YORK'S SHOW FOLKS!
• • GYPSYLAND
• • 133 WEST 45th STREET
• • A Real Hungarian Restaurant
• • "A Bit of Bohemia n the Heart of New York"
• • The New Mecca for Show Folks, Where Theatrical People Are Always Welcome, and Made to Feel at Home. Where the Stars Always Go.  
• • SO COZY, COMFORTABLE, HOMELIKE — — LUNCHEON, DINNER, SUPPER
• • Splendid Hungarian Orchestra, Great for Dancing, Unique Entertainment, including RIGO, the Famous Gypsy Violinist — — BARONESS OLGA BAKLANOFF, Sensation of Vienna
• • Unfortunately, the original structure at 133 West 45th Street was razed and is now a hideous looking modern something-or-other.
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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 • • 133 West 45th Street ad in 1922 • •
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