Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-30
FRENCH WILL SHIP
GU|NAN GANG BACK
White Horse and All Ordered
Out on First LineT-Gay
Boat Parties Blamed.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 80. Texas Guinan
and her gang" Of 80 Broadway
Blondes cannot enter France for bust
ness or for pleasure.
The director of the Surete Generate,
responsible for policing France, told
the Associated Press today that the
French government had refused adj
mission to the American night club
hostess and that the decision was
final. No reason was given.
Onacials of the French line tele-
phoned from Havre that they had re-
ceived instructions from the govern
ment to send the party and their
white horse back to the United States
on the first beat. They probably will
sail on the liner Paris Wednesday for
New York.
Would Plead Case.
The queen Of the Broadway night
clubs told the Associated Press today ct
Havre that her manager. John Ste n,
already had gone to Paris and he and
Harry Pilcer, manager Of the Paris
night club in which she and her gang
had expected to appear, would try to
arrange for her to go to Paris to plead
her case there before the highest au-
thorities.
Texas left the third-class hotel, in
which she and her girls had been quar-
tered since their arrival at Havre from
America yesterday, to lunch at the Ho-
tel Frascati. There she told OF her new
plan. of campaign.
1T cannot believe that I will be re-
fused permission to go to Paris alone
to plead my case with the premier"
she said. IT am not asking to bring
my girls yet. All ask is a chance to
speak fer myself, and 1 will bet any
amount and give odds that when they
have heard me they will let me In
with the rest of the gang"
When she was told that the directors
of the Surete Generate, responsible for
policing France, had announced that
she would be refused entrance and that
this decision was final, Texas grinned
and declared:
Withholds Plans.
"A good architect never talks about
his plans until they are finished. I
have dozens. If 1 cannot get into
Paris, will go to Berlin or italy. If
that fails, can start my club on one
of the transatlantic liners. Two steam
ship companies already have made me
offers"
Texas scoffed at reports that she was
uncomfortable in the Hotel Trans
atlantique.
Miss Guinan, who served as a camp
entertainer in France during the World
War, was asked if she was going to
make a plea for admission to France
on that basis.
THAT is my idea Of poor sportsman
ship" she declared. II am not coming
into France on any sob-sister story or
on what did in the war. I will come
in on my record as an entertainer or
not at ALL"
Contract Not visaed.
Havre police said they understood
that the contract under which the
entertainers were to perform in Paris
cabaret had not been visaed by the
Ministry of Labor before they left New
York.
La Guinan and her "pals" will be
allowed to remain in the waterfront
emigrant hotel in which they were
chartered last night. She said yester.
day she might take the girls on a
world tour to broaden their viewpoint
or 70 some port on the Mediterranean.
The off1ciai reason given was that
the party left New York with tourist
passports which specified the period for
which they could remain, whereas, In
order to work, they should have been
given special visaes by the French
consulate general.
Il was understood also in official
circles that information telling of gay
parties aboard the Paris on the trip
across the Atlantic had reached the
French police. These stories, together
with reports that the British govern
ment had refused them entrance, were
believed on good authority to have
entered into the decision.