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Rosie ("Dolly Sisters") Dolly landed at Manhattan last week with her new Dominion husband, Mortimer Davis Jr., tobacco scion. Asked about the amazing luck of herself and twin-sister Jennie, at the baccarat tables in Cannes (TIME, March 12), Mrs. Davis ruefully admitted that luck has turned against Jennie, who has now lost the whole of a spectacular win totaling...
...Dolly Sisters (2) set the pace of fortune by announcing that they had won a total of $820,000 during the present season of baccarat at Cannes, French Riviera. During the week King Christian X of Denmark, now at Cannes, deemed it worth, his royal while to stand for half an hour near Miss Rosie Dolly while she plunged at baccarat and won 4,000,000 francs ($160,000) in a single afternoon. Friends of the Dollys could only beam and recall a few of the piquant events which have transpired since they were born simultaneously, 35 years...
...Gambling with the paraphernalia of roulette and baccarat was allowed to be resumed in Italy, last week, but at only one resort, San Remo, which is only 20 miles east of Monte Carlo on the Riviera. When Senator Corrado Ricci interpellated Signor Mussolini, last week, as to why San Remo alone was favored, the Dictator rapped...
Stories. Paris newspapers burst out with hospitable salvos at once. One story that made a deep im pression told of a legionary whose first act was to ask for the next train to Baccarat. "Why go there?" he was asked. "I was nursed," he answered, "by a poor French family there, and I've got 10,000 francs for them, and can't wait to get it into their hands." Other stories described the emo tional reunions of French mothers with daughters and sons-in-law who had made them grandmothers of small Americans up to ten years...
...plant at Pittsburgh. The Judge was further irritated by President Schwab's behavior at Monte Carlo. Reports came that the very President of the U. S. Steel Corp., that "good" corporation, was reveling on the Riviera, that he was playing roulette, vingt-et-un, chemin-de-fer and baccarat for stakes of thousands of dollars. Mr. Schwab has never smoked. He has drunk sparingly. He has been a devoted husband. Yet he has always liked a pleasant game of cards. If he did gamble a bit at Monte Carlo, the stakes meant little to him and he had earned...