TWO HOSTESSES IN COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1929, Page 8

TWO HOSTESSES IN COURT

THEIR NIGHT CLUBS IN DANGER

NEW YORK, May 17

New York’s two night club hostesses, vivacious Miss Texas Guinan and demure Miss Helen Morgan, are prominent in tho news just now without any effort on their part.

Miss Guinan is waging a battle royal with Police-Commissioner Whalen, and Miss Morgan is to-day facing Mrs Willebrandt, the ardent prohibitionist, who is seeking through the court to put dark Helen ui prison as a violator of the Volstead law.

When her rival, a few days ago slipped through the prohibition net by the aid of a. sympathetic jury, New Yorkers, with the exception of Mr Whalen,, were delighted.

The police commissioner told her publicly that she knew she was guilty to which she replied that her salon Royale was as respectable as a strawberry festival. Would ho come and see? she queried.

He proceed ,to lock up her other entertainment club because MissGuinali refused to,obey the curlew orders that all night clubs must shut at 3 a.m

INTI NOTION CRANTED. Last night she won from Judge Sherman an injunction restraining Mr Whalen from closing her club until the matter had been argued in court. Miss Morgan, who was formerly a Chicago saleswoman, is facing trial on identical charges. But whereas Miss Guinan threw her smiles all round the court, Miss Morgan sits as shy and demure as a schoolgirl while her lawyer argues that she is a paid employee of her “Summer Home.”

He contends that she is therefore not responsible if liqour sales have taken place in that club.

Having failed to convict Miss Guinan the Government seems very keen to secure a verdict against Helen, but New Yorkers are praying that she, towill soon be ' free again to entertain them in the small hours of the morning.