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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 were "barred from French soil," first kept aboard the Paris at Havre, then herded into a detention house half full of Polish immigrants and "legally outside of France." The Ministry of Interior, citing unemployment among French night club artistes, refused to admit competitive La Guinan et sa gang...
Fortnight ago, Manhattan's willowy, socialite Mrs. Morgan Belmont headed "through the courtesy of the French Line" a list of patronesses who sponsored a farewell party for Guinan & Gang in Manhattan aboard the S. S. Paris.? This was the first, the only Guinan party at which there were no "suckers." No guest paid a cent. Guinan & Gang furnished mirth, French Line chefs a buffet supper. Curfew was at 2 a. m., earliest ever for a Guinan party. The Belmontized farewell had the effect of toning-up Guinan & Gang, but aboard the Paris her kids did a dance ("charity concert...
...French Justice was generous to small Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger ("Miss St. Louis 1923"). She was acquitted at Nice of murdering her U. S. husband, after confessing that she shot him at the black end of a jealous quarrel (TIME, June 1, et ante). Last week large Texas Guinan got no French generosity whatever, was held at Havre in a room with barred windows, having as furniture three iron beds and one spittoon...
...window had no light-tight curtain. In the U. S. Miss Guinan "cannot sleep" unless her bedroom window is hung with blankets or the glass painted black. At inflexible agents of the Surete Generale (Secret Service) la grosse jemme hurled piercing shrieks?in vain...
...petites filles, the Guinan gang! They were nice to M. Epstein. He was nice to them. He let "these young goats" out of their pen to frisk in Havre. They browsed at good road restaurants, brought home tasty food to Tex. Within 48 hours les petites filles had M. Epstein so well in hand that he let Miss Guinan lunch (once) at Havre's Frascati's. Vive la petite fille?then bang! From Paris the Director General of the Surete Generale, M. Maurier, telegraphed that nobody was to be let out of the pen. M. Epstein, Miss Guinan & kids were...