Foreign News: Mrs. Belmont's Miss Guinan

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...

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