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Mournfully the Madrid correspondent reported: "The last session of roulette was desolating. People played only 10-and 20-franc notes. The baccarat game . . . closed for lack of a banker. The barman at the Casino sold his last Henry Clay cigars for 1,000 francs. A few weeks ago they were 10,000 francs. Nobody wanted to buy whiskey. . . . Monaco is a desert...
Shaw: "I have read the . . . scenes you . . . mapped out. You . . . must have got frightfully drunk . . . to conceive such a thing. Stephen and Cusins playing baccarat and Undershaft living like a second lieutenant just come into a legacy, with nautch girls all complete, is beyond the wildest dreams of Sam Goldwyn. . . . Unless you kept a copy it is dead...
Spent World War I years in Paris among the more subtle of those who made a lifework of pleasure. Stilled anxiety with alcohol; cracked under the alcohol. Broke a baccarat bank for 40,960 francs...
Displaying a dynamic knowledge of baccarat and the higher nuances of poker, the Crimson motor yachtsmen whiled their way to victory over the Mystic launches on the difficult mile course of the Charles yesterday...
Despite antigambling sentiment in English parishes, the former Prince of Wales and later Edward VIII liked to try his chance at baccarat or roulette in Europe's public casinos. Last week in Monte Carlo's swank International Sporting Club the Duke of Windsor laid his stakes as a modest punter at baccarat, never cried "Banco!" Other punters, with traditional gambler superstitition. rushed to stake on chances opposite to those picked by Edward, figuring "Lucky at love, unlucky at cards." They lost heavily to the bank, from which His Royal Highness won a total for the evening...