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When Lucy and the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin returned last September from their annual water cure at Aix-les-Bains, she was said to have successfully bucked him up, persuaded him out of his strong desire to resign as Leader of the Conservative Party...
Identified members of this potent gaming cabal are Messrs. Koujongeorg, Andre (French gambling-house proprietor), Zar-eth and Zographos. Supposed assets: some 1,200,000,000 francs ($46,800,000). For almost ten years these gentlemen have run the baccarat banks at Deauville, Cannes, Monte Carlo. Biarritz, La Baule, Aix-les-Bains, Juan-les-Pins, Le Touquet. They have prospered to the extent of paying 25,000% in dividends to their 50-odd investors. Most famed member of the group is M. Zographoo, whose extravagance is voitures de grand sport (fast automobiles) and whose reputation for honesty is only equalled...
Married. Aga Sultan, Sir Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, 52, "direct descendant of Mohammed," leader of 12,000,000 Shiite Mohammedans; and Mlle. Andre Josephine Marie Leonie Carron. 31, Parisian modiste; at Aix-Les-Bains by Playwright Henri Clerc, Mayor of Aix. Though the Aga Khan is so holy that spoonfuls of his bathwater are peddled among the faithful, he owns one of the finest racing stables in Europe, plays roulette, shoots craps. In delicate compliment to her husband, Mlle. Carron wore a wedding gown of her husband's racing colors (emerald & chocolate) banded with weasel...
...when the last Prussian troops marched out of Paris, crowds of bourgeois housewives expectorated lustily. Great bonfires of straw were burned to "purify" the Place de la Concorde. From German Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) and Coblenz the last Belgian and French troops marched out last week. There were bonfires on the Rhine hillsides, but no expectoration. Rhinelanders waited until the last troop trains had gone, then young folk danced in rain wet streets, old folk breathed an earnest Gott Sei Dank! The Second Zone of Allied Occupation was free...
Many an artist has been accused of insanity. There was the bovine Rousseau who was the laugh of Paris in his day and "Pere" Cezanne of whom the worthies of Aix said, with a shrug: "Surely he is mad." Today the sale of a Rousseau or a Cezanne is an art event. They run into five figures. America had Blakelock, painter of dark, glowing Indian encampments, who was committed to an insane asylum and kept in for the greater part of his life. It is well for the Fauves* of Paris that solicitous friends and relatives never sought court injunctions...