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TEXAS GUINAN knew that The Del Fey Club on West 45th was wildly popular. So why not open her own nightspot directly across the way?
• • "Texas Guinan's New Place" • •
• • The Texas Tommy is a new drop-in place on the order of the Hotsy-Totsy Club which Texas Guinan and her brother Tommy, opened in West 45th Street. The Texas Tommy will also have Jerry Benson interested for one-quarter, Benson being the marvelous pianist at the Hotsy-Totsy. The Texas Tommy is adjacent to The Del Fey where Miss Guinan holds forth regularly.
• • Source: Cabarets column in Variety; published on Wednesday, 14 October 1925
• • In 1925, The Del Fey Club gave its address (in paid advertisements) as 104 West 45th Street — — as well as on the north side of the street in an old four-story brownstone at 107 West 45th Street, New York, NY (previously the address of The Friars Club and Mecca Temple).

• • A Del Fey Club announcement in The New Yorker advised this: "Pandemonium from midnight until morning. Not for sheltered debutantes." • • The El Fey Club was the first nightspot Larry Fay leased when he hired Texas Guinan as his emcee.

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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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