Texas Guinan * Texas Guinan: Texas Guinan: 0. 0. McIntyre

The media people kissed TEXAS GUINAN and she kissed and cooed right back. One of the faithful scribes who often serenaded her in print was 0. 0. McIntyre, who was born in the same year as the Waco cowgirl: 1884.
• • For a quarter of a century, his daily column, “New York Day by Day,” was published in more than 500 newspapers. Texas Guinan does not rebuke an annoying customer with "Hello, Sucker!" She now cries. "You are just a cover charge to me," he noted in his column dated Sunday, 17 August 1930. "Texas Guinan made $700,000 in the most prosperous year of her night club reign," he revealed to his readers on Sunday, 10 December 1933.
• • Oscar Odd McIntyre [18 February 1884 — 14 February 1938] • •
• • Hedda Hopper wrote: Any newspaper man knows names make news. No one recognized this better than the gentleman who was probably the daddy of the personality news column way back in the roaring '20s. That would be 0. 0. McIntyre.
• • Texas Guinan's name was often sandwiched into his delicious buffet of a column. Lionized by the columnist often during her speakeasy hostess era, Texas seemed to be no less alive to him and worthy of praise after 1933. Here is one example.

• • New York, NY — — April 16th — — The most popular night club hostess New York has ever known was, of course, Texas Guinan, with Helen Morgan a runner-up. . . .
• • Source: "New York Day by Day" by 0. 0. Mclntyre, syndicated column rpt in Herald-Journal; published on Friday, 17 April 1936
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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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