Texas Guinan * Texas Guinan: Texas Guinan: Payne Got Thaw

TEXAS GUINAN knew that any tidbit about the lawless Harry Thaw was a good publicity angle for her club. Let's look at her sly strategy in the autumn of 1925.
• • "When Thaw and Payne Met" • •
• • While Harry Thaw was at the Del Fey Club the other night, Texas Guinan noticed Phil Payne walk in. Miss Guinan placed the managing editor of "The Mirror" right next to Thaw but back to back. Soon after, someone introduced Payne to Thaw, when the latter commenced to "ride" the newspaper man as "The Mirror" has published some severe articles on Thaw's meanderings around the cabaret belt at night.
• • Finally, Harry Thaw commenced to thaw — — but about this time Payne started to freeze up. They ended friendly enough, although a couple of days later "The Mirror" had another scorching story on Thaw.
• • Source: Variety; published on Wednesday, 14 October 1925.

• • In September 1927, prominent newspaperman and crime crusader Phil Payne (born 1892), flying in Old Glory, died in an air stunt. He was 35 years old.
• • Harry Kendall Thaw [12 February 1871 — 22 February 1947] was 54 years old when he met Payne, 33, in 1925 at the Del Fey Club in New York City.
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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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