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  Texas Guinan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Guinan was born in Waco, Texas, and studied music in Chicago before returning to her hometown with hopes of becoming a professional singer.
Guinan is credited with coining a number of phrases, such as "butter and egg men" to refer to her well-off patrons, and her well-known demand that the audience "give the little ladies great big hand".
Guinan returned to the screen with two sound pictures, playing slightly fictionalized versions of herself as a speakeasy propriatress in "Queen of the Night Clubs" in 1929 and "Broadway Through a Keyhole" in 1933.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/t/te/texas_guinan.html   (444 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Queen of the Nightclubs : Plot
Guinan is cast as Tex Malone, a New York nightery owner who hires innocent young songstress Bee Wallace (Lila Lee) to perform in Tex's club.
In the course of the trial, Tex discovers that Eddie is actually her own son.
Without ever revealing her relationship with Eddie to the world, Tex manages to prove that the actual killer was rival club owner Andy Quindland (played by veteran movie "drunk" Arthur Housman, in a rare sober characterization).
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/71182/plot.jhtml   (239 words)

  
 Movie Info for Queen of the Nightclubs on MSN Movies
More or less playing herself, the brash, blowsy Guinan is cast as Tex Malone, a New York nightery owner who hires innocent young songstress Bee Wallace (Lila Lee) to perform in Tex's club.
In the course of the trial, Tex discovers that Eddie is actually her own son.
Without ever revealing her relationship with Eddie to the world, Tex manages to prove that the actual killer was rival club owner Andy Quindland (played by veteran movie "drunk" Arthur Housman, in a rare sober characterization).
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=97573&mp=m&   (209 words)

  
 A Blighted Streetscape Gets Kissed by Stardust This Summer
It was 100 years ago when Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan [1884-1933] arrived in Manhattan - - alone, newly divorced, and steeled by self-determination.
"Tex could never have lived anywhere but in Greenwich Village," observed her biographer Louise Berliner, whose grandfather Maxwell E. Lopin was the lawyer who kept the speakeasy hostess out of jail after numerous police raids during the lawless decade.
Kicking off at 12 noon on Sunday August 20, 2006, "Mae West and Texas Guinan in Greenwich Village during a Lawless Decade" is a tour of the Washington Square area with an emphasis on locations linked to the transgressive careers of Mae West and Texas Guinan during the Roaring 20s.
www.emediawire.com /releases/2006/5/prweb387466.php   (662 words)

  
 Incendiary Blonde (1945)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck...
Far more restrained than her usual exploding firecracker screen personas, she here acts quite well indeed as she matures from a boisterous Wild West performing tomboy to a singing/dancing Broadway star and ultimately to the owner/hostess of a famous NYC Roaring Twenties nightclub.
As Texas Guinan she brings warmth and dignity to her role and carries the film superbly.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0037816   (380 words)

  
 Texas Guinan: Texas Becomes a New Yorker: 1907
Born on January 12, 1884 in Waco, Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan played the gun-slinger and rode bareback in silent films, took New York by storm in 1906, and was earning a salary of $700,000 by 1927 as a speakeasy hostess.
It was 100 years ago when Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan [1884-1933] arrived in Manhattan — alone, newly divorced, and steeled by self-determination.
• • “Tex could never have lived anywhere but in Greenwich Village,” observed her biographer Louise Berliner, whose grandfather Maxwell E. Lopin was the lawyer who kept the speakeasy hostess out of jail after numerous police raids during the 1920s.
texasguinan.blogspot.com /2006/05/texas-becomes-new-yorker-1907.html   (329 words)

  
 BRITISHPATHE.COM | "HELLO SUCKER!" (aka TEX GUINAN - NIGHTCLUB QUEEN) | 1062.09   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
American Nightclub star Tex Guinan talks to dancing girls about her forthcoming wedding.
Note: I think Texas Guinan was a stunt cowgirl before she was a nightclub hostess...
Title: "HELLO SUCKER!" (aka TEX GUINAN - NIGHTCLUB QUEEN) TcIn: 1:28:35:00 TcOut: 1:29:01:00 Summary: New York Nightclub star talks about her fourth wedding.
www.britishpathe.com /thumb_pf.php?id=65498   (188 words)

  
 Texas Guinan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
When he was in his 20s, while he was covering the nightlife scene for newspapers, Marx frequented several clubs run by Texas Guinan and her brother Tommy.
Texas Guinan remembers her former protege on his birthday: September 26th.
Texas Guinan was written up because of her show "Padlocks of 1927" and Mae West, darling of Broadway, was depicted in her star-turn as Diamond Lil.
texasguinan.blogspot.com   (1545 words)

  
 Dorothy Parker Society
In 1928, the former Tex Guinan's (also known as Club Intime) was on the circuit of West Side speaks that catered to the theatre set.
"Texas Guinan Says" was the name of the few paragraphs that ran with her smiling photo.
Some of Tex Guinan's old newspaper columns are passed around to patrons, 70 years after the writer penned the pieces.
www.dorothyparker.com /dot29.htm   (839 words)

  
 Archives: Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Tex Guinan, Manhattan's celebrated queen of the night clubs, was acquitted of a charge of being a nuisance amid cheers of everyone in the court room.
The case against Barney McGee was dismissed and the young man from the west, charged with the theft of a horse from George Fox, pleaded guilty.
He was a veteran of World War II and saw three years of service in the European theater.
www.gillettenewsrecord.com /articles/2005/06/12/celebration/hist2.txt   (218 words)

  
 Abrreviated View of Movie Page
Tex Henderson, a Western woman, excels at horse riding to the extent that the cowboy she loves rejects her as being too mannish.
When the government opens up land for settlement, Tex joins the land rush, and her expert quick riding ouwits others trying to stop her.
She makes her land stake, after which the cowboy changes his mind and marries her.
www.afi.com /members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=1&Movie=12389   (62 words)

  
 A Blighted Streetscape Gets Kissed by Stardust This Summer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
"Tex could never have lived anywhere but in Greenwich Village," observed her biographer Louise Berliner, whose grandfather Maxwell E. Lopin was the lawyer who kept the speakeasy hostess out of jail after numerous police raids during the lawless decade.
More Texas Guinan - - and Mae West - - locations will be covered on the tour on Sunday August 20, 2006.
Kicking off at 12 noon on Sunday August 20, 2006, "Mae West and Texas Guinan in Greenwich Village during a Lawless Decade" is a tour of the Washington Square area with an emphasis on locations linked to the transgressive careers of Mae West and Texas Guinan during the Roaring 20s.
www.thoughtful-gift-ideas.com /n/gifts/A-Blighted-Streetscape-Gets-Kissed-by-Stardust-This-Summer.html   (559 words)

  
 The Lawless Decade By Paul Sann
That was the difference between Texas Guinan and Helen Morgan.
Sometimes, as in the Guinan places, there was an extra added attraction:   raiders.
Miss Morgan, Tex Guinan, and Belle Livingston were among the more notable women who dominated the night clubs and other rendezvous of revelry in the Twenties.
www.lawlessdecade.net /new1928-1.html   (494 words)

  
 An Omnibus Review of Singer-Songwriter Albums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Guinan was once a leading light with Speranza, a spunky rootsy outfit from Dublin, who promised great things at the twilight of the 1990s but who disappeared from local sight.
Now happily domiciled in the Netherlands and appearing in a duo with Ronald De Jong or the band Red, Guinan's sharp wit and quick power with words have not deserted him.
Guinan's vocals retain a yearning romanticism best found in 'If I was wise' and 'Save Me'.
www.greenmanreview.com /cd/cd_ss_omni_0204.html   (955 words)

  
 Heartbreakers Are Go!
These dolls and action figures were customized by Paul Guinan (with help from Anina).
They remain one of the only examples, in the comic-book industry, of character figurines crafted by the comic creator himself.
The Tex Takeda doll, seen above with Queenie, is used as at conventions for booth display.
www.bigredhair.com /heartbreakers/HBfigures.html   (217 words)

  
 Texas_Quotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
-Texas Guinan, Waco born Broadway/Hollywood starlet and famous speakeasy owner of the 1920's.
Tex Ritter, country music and movie star on the heritage of his home state.
Then will come sultry Summer, with her shimmerin' heat-waves on the baked horizon; and Fall with her yellow harvest-moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' Sun; and finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
www.texashiker.com /Texas_Quotes.htm   (1475 words)

  
 The Ohio Gang   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Mary Cecilia ("Texas" or "Tex") Guinan was New Yorks City's "______________________"
Tex would usually show up sometime after ___________________ and bellow forth a brash
She might jump onto the piano and sing a _______________ _______________ or lead the crowd and the waiters in a ____________________________________________ sing-along.
www.pcsb.k12.fl.us /teachnet/jnorman/20worksheets.htm   (1601 words)

  
 Pale cast of thought
McGrath, 339 U.S. 33 (1950)(rather broadly disapproving of the practice of administrative adjudications presided over by administrative officers who have themselves personally called the affected party’s status into serious question).
This conversation is more richly developed in the televised or videocassette version, in which Guinan delicately leads Picard to think about the human history of chattel slavery and its doctrines and rationales.
Snce at least Descartes, some of us have been haunted by the worry that our own mind may be real, but those of others merely cleverly created illusions or otherwise unreal.
tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/lsf/wright25.htm   (6440 words)

  
 Rolling Stone : Really Randoms: Lil' Kim, Courtney Love: Lil' Kim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
From porn star in The People vs. Larry Flynt, to Eighties twenty-something in 200 Cigarettes, to housewife in the upcoming Julie Johnson, Love may have found her perfect film role match.
Guinan, born Mary Louise Cecelia Guinan, worked in vaudeville and starred in silent films, primarily Westerns, as a gun-toting hero and was notorious for improvising details of her past history to suit her present.
Best known as "Queen of the Night Clubs," the Waco, Tex., native worked as a hostess in New York speakeasies and greeted customers with the film's title, and what became her catch phrase, "Hello, suckers".
www.rollingstone.com /artists/lilkim/articles/story/5918596/really_randoms_lil_kim_courtney_love   (2471 words)

  
 Butter and Egg Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He bought everyone in the house a drink and made no fuss when he got the bill.
Thrilled by this rare phenomenon, Tex decided that her guest needed a proper introduction.
Leading the dandy to the center of the dance floor, at this time the size of a small white envelope, she signaled for a distinguished drum roll and said,
www.miskatonic.org /butter_and_egg.html   (236 words)

  
 PR Leap: A Blighted Streetscape Inhales Stardust This Summer
It was 100 years ago when Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan [1884-1933] arrived in Manhattan - - alone, newly divorced, and steeled by self-determination.
Meet at Village Restaurant, 62 West 9th Street [near Sixth Avenue], where a free exhibition of rare archival images of MAE WEST and TEXAS GUINAN can also be viewed for FREE from August 17th until August 31st during restaurant hours.
On August 20th, the fee includes BRUNCH at Village + gin cocktails right after a tour: $25.
www.prleap.com /pr/36001   (616 words)

  
 A Tribute to Tex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Many visitors to the club are hoping to catch a glimpse of the owner.
We don't blame you, Tex is quite a looker!
She is a bit elusive, however, so we thought a virtual substitute was the next best thing.
www.jazzbabies.com /nonflash/textribute.html   (56 words)

  
 Cabaret 101 - Part 1
Future Warner Brothers star Ruby Keeler got her start as a speakeasy chorine, working for the outrageous hostess Texas Guinan.
Miss Morgan, Tex Guinan, Belle Livingston were among the more notable women who dominated the nightclubs and other rendezvous of revelry in the twenties.
But the pattern persisted all over the country -- speakeasies and "intimate" spots featured women torch singers and piano players.
www.musicals101.com /cabaret.htm   (1594 words)

  
 Ask the Chief 10/10/97
Apparently TNG's Guinan was named for a bartender named 'Tex' Guinan.
In an odd coincidence, one day a story about him was on the cover of the very same newspaper reporting on the adventures in the Marinias Trench of one Jacques Piccard.
Her establishment was so brazen about fleecing its patrons that she greeted them upon arrival with the salutation, "Hello, sucker!" A *very* interesting connection to the hostess of Ten-forward, I should think.
www.nitcentral.com /askchief/ac971010.htm   (5268 words)

  
 The Big Apple
"Butter-and-egg man" has long thought to have been coined by nightclub queen Texas Guinan in 1924.
Her whirlwind start and night club career which jarred and pleased Paris, New York, Hollywood -- even Sioux City, Ia. -- has gone definitely domestic in the more or less rustic scenes of this Iowa lake region.
To her old friends, it is certain she will remain Muriel Hanford, the girl, now 40 or 50, who originated the "big butter and egg man" phrase which the late Tex Guinan popularized, and whose Sioux City night club bore the slogan, "You Can't Beat Fun."
www.barrypopik.com /index.php/new_york_city/comments/butter_and_egg_man   (553 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / THE AMERICAN CENTURY
At the same time, all the characters of the period seem painted in particularly gaudy colors.
Al Smith in politics, Capone and George Remus in gangland, Tex Guinan, even Coolidge—they’re all fascinating.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., of course; John Kenneth Galbraith in economics; Allen Weinstein and Michael Beschloss on the Cold War; Barbara Tuchman on the outbreak of the First World War; and Doris Kearns Goodwin on Eyndon Johnson.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1998/5/1998_5_90_print.shtml   (5786 words)

  
 New Masses v. The Nation -- Page 1 -- TIME
Sin and gin will not help The Nation.
Tex Guinan has not helped him to courage, or wit, or passion or greatness.
A Broadway night club is not a nursery for brave thinking.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,737376,00.html   (470 words)

  
 The Mystery Cafe Repertoire
Soon-to-be-weds, newlyweds, and oldyweds will all find something to recognize, appreciate, and laugh at in Marriage Can Be Murder!
Liquor is illegal, gangsters operate in the public eye, and those in the know meet at the primo social gathering spot of the Roaring 20s, Tex Guinan's Three Hundred Club, the Largest Floating Speakeasy in History!
Adding to the night's allure is the world's first nationwide radio broadcast live from the Three Hundred Club - or should we say dead, because there is the small problem of that body on the floor.
www.mysterycafehouston.com /MCshows.html   (727 words)

  
 GCD Database Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only.
Paul Guinan (story); Anina Bennett (story; script) (Script), Paul Guinan (Pencils), Paul Guinan (Inks), Willie Schubert (Letters).
Club One; Tex Takeda; Zido Stept; Therese Sorenson; Prime; Malinthe Stept; Vegas Ward; Rusk
www.comics.org /details.lasso?id=69456   (295 words)

  
 Splendor in the Grass (1961)
He drinks and generously offers $50 to a cute salesgirl selling kewpie dolls from a tray.
Silver-haired entertainer Tex Guinan (impersonated by Phyllis Diller in a cameo), the owner and hostess of the club, walks among the tables jovially greeting guests and delivering a comedy routine: "Hello suckers.
I'm glad you didn't let a little thing like the stock market crash keep you from coming out tonight.
www.filmsite.org /sple3.html   (3710 words)

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