Texas Guinan: Feets Edson

Hyman Edson worked with TEXAS GUINAN at most of her nightspots.  When she opened a world-class whoopee rousing club in Valley Stream in 1932, it was arranged that Edson would guard the terrain by opening a roadhouse directly across Merrick Road. For entertainment, Edson engaged a talented impressionist who often dressed in an evening gown but who was skilled enough to do both female and male impersonations.
• • Jackie Maye Booked at Showplace • •
• • Hyman "Feets" Edson [1894 —1964] will reopen Long Island's Showplace, and will feature Jackie Maye, just to prove to the waiting hordes that there is still a market for female impersonators (flatterer! Ed.).
• • And just guess who'll open the La Casa, at Valley Stream? Give up? Texas Guinan! Surprise! Texas Guinan, who just tootled overseas long enough to Okay Paris, and who has been announced as opening everything but Grant's Tomb, to date, will settle down at La Casa, and make sleeping tough in Valley Stream.
• • Announced on Saturday, 28 May 1932:  Frank Winegar [1901 — 1988] booked at Texas Guinan's La Casa.
• • Source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY); published on Wednesday, 18 May 1932

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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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Texas Guinan KO-ed R.K.O.

TEXAS GUINAN was grand but double bookings at her nightspot in Valley Stream and at the R.K.O. Palace became far too stressful even for her. They had even offered to pay generously but Tex decided to decline. When she cancelled, the R.K.O. went scurrying around for other headliners. And her Long Island phone number (Valley Stream 4866) rang and rang.
• • The Daily Star printed this scoop (pg 16) on Monday evening, 8 July 1929.
• • "Texas Guinan Cancelled" • •
• • Texas Guinan cancelled a week at the Palace at $8,000 beginning today. Several booking agents are in danger of losing their franchises. The R.K.O. were sent scurrying around for other headliners, all because La Guinan is doing so well at her road house, the Show Place, in Valley Stream, L.I., that she does not wish to jeopardize her success out there by playing extra shows in New York and tiring herself out.
• • The mix-up all happened when Texas Guinan's agents and managers, eager to please Texas, pencilled her in at the Palace at $7,500 for one week beginning July 6. They expected that she was to appear, and Sunday at the Palace, besides two at Valley Stream, which La Guinan felt unable to do and give her full personality and pep to the audience.
• • Through misunderstandings, it was expected that she was to appear, and when officials heard that she said, "no," after advertisements had been sent out, they raised the price offered to $8,000. But the final word is that Guinan is not to appear.

• • Source: Daily Star; published on Monday evening, 8 July 1929.

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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 • • Show Place, 1929 • •
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Texas Guinan: April 1934

TEXAS GUINAN was featured in a newspaper headline during early April 1934.
• • On 2 April 1934, one of the armored cars owned by Texas Guinan — — always garaged on Washington Square South, two blocks from the speakeasy hostess's townhouse on West Eighth Street — — sailed to Liverpool, England and its new owner.
• • Texas Guinan, queen of the night clubs, died on 5 November 1933. Her jewelry, furs, and cars were auctioned and one of her showgirls snapped up the bullet-proof vehicle. Perhaps the chorine made a nice profit on the automobile when she resold it shortly afterward to an Englishman. Clearly, the gal was not overcome by the limousine's sentimental value.
• • Texas Guinan loved to be driven out to Long Island for seafood after her club closed for the night, taking along a gaggle of girls who were known as "Texas Guinan's mob" to enjoy the fresh ocean air and the fresh catch.
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• • Photo: Texas Guinan • • 1929 • •
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