The popular expression goes: 'Everything is bigger in Texas.' It can apply not only to the State itself, but to the lives of the people who have called Texas home, especially the extraordinary life of ...

Texas Guinan had no reason to be concerned about her health when she left Chicago in 1933. The city’s medical authorities were slow to trace an outbreak of amoebic dysentery to the Congress Hotel, ...

Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan was an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. Born in Texas to Irish immigrant parents, Guinan decided at an early age to become an entertainer.Wikipedia ...

Singer-actress Courtney Love will get to perform some rowdy turn-of-the-century tunes: she has inked a deal to star in “Hello Suckers,” a biopic about Hollywood screen legend Texas Guinan. Pic will be ...

Blatant, big-hearted Mary Louise Cecilia (“Texas”) Guinan and her blonde gang of greenback gatherers, well beloved in Manhattan, approached France on the French Liner Paris last week. Abruptly they ...

I DON’T know what would happen to restaurant reporters in this great cultured city of ours if it weren’t for a certain girl named Texas Guinan. When all other things fail (literally and figuratively) ...

Being a good Waco boy in my growing-up years, I never greeted anybody that way, and, as far as I know, was never greeted that way myself. In the early decades of the 20th century, though, a fellow ...

With the repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Texas Guinan bid farewell to New York City on Sep. 8, 1931 and took her “Too Hot for Paris” revue on the road. Born Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan in ...