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...were taking him by train to Paris. In the first instance the agents went to sleep, drugged. In the second their prisoner slipped off his handcuffs by means best known to himself and ran. Only last winter, Chevalier d'Industrie Stavisky won a 2,000,000-franc baccarat duel at Cannes with Nicholas Zographos-and afterward marked cards were found in the baccarat shoe. Recklessly the Opposition Press in Paris hurled charges at Premier Chautemps that the Founder-Swindler had had a card as an inspector in the French Secret Service, that this alone had stopped French detectives from...
...Chef de Protocole was it was solemnly announced that he had been "delayed by illness." When the chuckling Communists let him go at last, he rushed to the marble banquet hall red-faced and spluttering. Dealing the 200 place cards with the speed and accuracy of a croupier at baccarat, Chef de Protocole Yeregui soon had the fuming, famished statesmen safely seated...
...admiring friends have agreed with Frank J. Gould. It cost him 100,000,000 francs ($6,200,000 at current exchange), was insured for 47,000,000 francs. He called it the Palais de la Mediterranee, looked upon it as a sumptuous temple to opera, drama, gastronomie and baccarat. Nobody could deny that it was at least the largest gambling casino in Europe, equipped with one of the best theatres and finest restaurants in France. The Palais never paid, but Mr. Gould, who has hotel properties in Nice, used to say, "Never mind, the casino makes the resort." It also...
...French estate at Maisons-Laffitte (TIME, Dec. 5, 1932). The syndicate was behind on gambling taxes due the state one day last week, but insisted that they would open the Palais for the season next evening. Just after noon flames burst from the restaurant, the theatre, the baccarat room and swept in a crackling torrent through the whole Palais...
...London Daily Mail's Publisher Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Baron Rothermere of Hemsted. Banker Kahn's 800-acre estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. is also for sale. Frank Jay Gould, famed expatriate, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, leased his depression-starved $5,000,000 baccarat casino in Nice to a French syndicate for 2,500,000 francs ($150,000). Because the French Government has decided to legalize roulette, long forbidden in France, he did not lease his smaller casino at Juan-les-Pins, will run it himself. In Brooklyn Federal Court, Columbia University...