Born on 12 January 1884 in Waco, Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan played a gun-slinger and rode bareback in silent films, took New York by storm in 1906, and earned a salary of $700,000 as a speakeasy hostess. Here are highlights from a life led at full speed until 5 November 1933. Meet TEXAS GUINAN!

Thursday, March 03, 2016

Texas Guinan: Wilson Mizner

TEXAS GUINAN was friends with Wilson Mizner. In 1928, she floated the story that she was considering marrying him. There was one kink. If only he would propose.
• • "Texas Guinan to try again" • •
• • Texas Guinan, queen of the night clubs, who is ready to commit matrimony — — and with her Wilson Mizner, author, playwright, traveler, bon vivant, wit and millionaire. There is one obstacle in Texas's path. She does not know whether she can get the only man she would have — — this man being Wilson Mizner.  Texas said she is badly smitten but not desperate. She is waiting for Wilson to make up his mind.
• • Note: Wilson Mizner [1876 — 1933] is noted for many bons mots such as, "Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet the same people on the way down," and, "If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism. If you copy from two, it's research."
• • Source:  The Milwaukee Sentinel; published on Thursday, 15 November 1928
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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
• • in 1928 • •

Texas Guinan.

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