Texas Guinan: Night Club — 2 words

Here's the untold story behind the noun "night club," a term coined by TEXAS GUINAN.  She was not the first individual, however, to open a nightspot where men and women could dance, drink, socialize, and be entertained.
• • For instance, in 1917 (during pre-wartime Prohibition) in Greenwich Village, Paula "Polly" Holliday and Bernard "Barney" Gallant were running the Greenwich Village Inn on Sheridan Square. This was considered to be the first place in New York City where drinks were served at a customer's table by a waiter or waitress and there was live entertainment onstage.
• • This kind of avant-garde nightspot was known as "a concert saloon" or "a cabaret" in 1917.
• • Let's move ahead seven years to 1924, when Texas Guinan and Larry Fay opened their El Fey Club in midtown Manhattan. To extract more cash from the attendees and also to have a ready alibi for the cops, Texas instructed her doorman to sell a club membership card to anyone trying to gain admission. Later on, when the police would show up, Texas explained that this was a private party — — and all the adults inside were "club members."  Clever, huh?

• • During the 1920s, night club was always two words as in "Queen of the Night Clubs."
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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 

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• • Photo: Texas Guinan • • page in Variety, 1926 • •
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