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TEXAS GUINAN spoke to a Los Angeles Women's Club and told them how they helped her get rich by nagging their husbands which heightened the men's desire to escape to her rowdy pleasure dome. As usual, pragmatism and an understanding of human nature were held high in her hand of aces.
• • "Texas Guinan Made 'Whoopee' a Source of Fame" • •
• • West Coast journalist Cecilia Rasmussen wrote: She was a purveyor of speak-easy booze — — and other illicit pleasures — — whose advice to other women would have set even a tepid feminist's teeth on edge: "If you women would amuse your husbands when they come home, they wouldn't slip away and pay a $5 cover charge to get a little excitement," Texas Guinan once told members of a Los Angeles women's club. "Humor them! Don't nag them! Do you know what made me a rich woman? Wives who talk to their husbands about gas bills and curtains."
• • Cecilia Rasmussen explained: It wasn't exactly an example of elevated consciousness, but it was the sort of unembarrassed pragmatism that took a small-town Texas girl from the music hall stage to the silent screen to the glamorous gin mills of the Great White Way and back again — — with stops in between for appearances in various courtrooms, where she also was something of a hit.
• • Cecilia Rasmussen continued: Years before she achieved a kind of celebrity — — or notoriety — — as the wisecracking "Queen of the Night Clubs," which she ran for the New York mob, Guinan was a Catholic schoolgirl in Waco, Texas, the daughter of Irish immigrant parents to whom she was born in 1884. . . .

• • Source: Article: "Texas Guinan Made 'Whoopee' a Source of Fame" by Cecilia Rasmussen for the L.A. Times; published on 3 September 2000
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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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