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- Creator
- Guinan, Texas
- Call number
- *ZC-500
- Physical description
- 1 reel of microfilm
- Preferred Citation
- Clippings of her newspaper column, Texas Guinan says, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Billy Rose Theatre Division
- Access to materials
- Some collections held by the Dance, Music, Recorded Sound, and Theatre Divisions at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts are held off-site and must be requested in advance. Please check the collection records in the NYPL's online catalog for detailed location information. For general guidance about requesting offsite materials, please consult: https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/lpa/requesting-archival-materials
Texas Guinan, actress, singer and night club entertainer, was born Mary Louise Cecelia Guinan in Waco, Texas some time between 1884 and 1891 and died in Canada in 1933. She performed in 1920s speakeasies and some films of the period and was a prominent Broadway attraction. Collection consists of Guinan's syndicated column of cracks and sayings and an undated obituary.
Using the collection
Location
Billy Rose Theatre DivisionNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor