“FOUND RELIGION"
NIGHT CLUB QUEEN LOS ANGELES, Sept- 12. '•Texas” Guinan, most famous of American night club queens, has “found religion.’' When Klieba -Splivalo, former “Angel of Broadway,” called for converts at the Angelus Temple, “Texas” thrust her hand into the air; on a finger was a huge square diamond. She and 25 other converts filed to tho platform and surrendered themselves. She added her husky contralto to the thundering chorus of “Looking Over Jordan.” Now “Texas,” tho girl who made tho expression “Hollo, sucker,” famous, says that in future she will give night club “suckers” something besides a headache.
“Texas” Guinan lmd, among others, the titles of the “Night Club Queen of New York,” and “the Greatest of the White Way's Pop Dispensers.” A few years ago sliOj, arrived at Cherbourg, with a troupo of “Whoopee” girls, Iml was not allowed to enter France. Rlmlia Splivalo, formerly n Salvation Army girl, was appointed State Director of Social Welfare in California bv the Governor, Mr James Ralph.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18207, 30 September 1933, Page 3
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