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Oh those days when TEXAS GUINAN offered world-class whoopee at Club Intime and her gallant gun-toting "galahad" was ever on call.
• • Born in Manhattan and raised on the Bowery, Hyman H. Edson [1894 —1964] was a career criminal but retained the after-glow of being associated with Texas Guinan and the affection of gossip columnists.
• • During the speakeasy era, the gun-toting Hyman “Feets” Edson was described in newspaper articles as Guinan’s “manager,” a “broker,” her “faithful henchman,” or (in 1926) “a tired business man, alleged to have had liquor on his person.”
• • When Guinan opened a Merrick Road speakeasy, it was noted that “Feets” Edson was operating the club directly opposite hers.
• • Last Sucker at Club Intime, 205 West 54th Street • •
• • New York, April 28, 1929 — — Texas Guinan's Club Intime was evicted from the Hotel Harding on West 54th st., Saturday afternoon by City Marshal Michael J. Kennedy, jr., who acted on an order obtained from municipal court by Mrs. Tillie Landauer, landlord of the hotel.
• • Kennedy and his assistants piled the pianos. chairs, tables, draperies and other furnishings of the club on the sidewalk, as Tommy Guinan, brother of Texas, and Hyman Edson, her faithful henchman, looked mournfully on. The belongings were not long on the sidewalk. The draperies were taken away by a cleaning concern and the other stuff went to a warehouse.

• • Tommy Guinan and Edson were discussing the prospects of the club's reopening when Marshal Kennedy arrived. "Who are you?" they asked.
• • "I'm probably the last sucker to step in here," said Kennedy. "I'm the city marshal and I'm going to give the little girl a great big hand."
• • In December 1964, Edson was killed in a car accident. On January 26, 1965, Broadway columnist Leonard Lyon wrote: "Feets Edson, the colorful Texas Guinan character who was killed in an auto accident last month, was suing George Raft for libel."
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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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