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...gambling casinos of France the managers tucked up the tails of their cutaway coats, counted the kitties, made their reports to discouraged stockholders last week. It has been a poor season. Deauville, Le Touquet, Aix, Biarritz, Vichy and Cannes all reported losses averaging from 25% to 66% of their 1931 income. There was only one bright spot. Fifty years ago when nearby Deauville contained nothing but shrimp fishermen and Norman cider makers, Trouville was a fashionable resort. This year there were in Trouville enough holiday makers who could no longer afford Deauville prices to jack its casino profits from...
...Death in Biarritz came last week to another contemporary of grizzled Bomber Frolenko, 88-year-old Prince Alexander of Oldenburg. He, too, was typical of his generation in Russia, the group of ineffectively liberal aristocrats of the middle 19th Century. (Tsar Alexander II's liberation of the serfs did not, in the end, please the serfs because the plan made them pay-as-they-farmed.) A grandson of a sister of Tsar Alexander I, Prince Alexander became Commander of the Preobrajensky Guards at 28. In 1877 he captured Etropol in the war with Turkey. His father. Duke Constantine, gave...
Completely off his game, Golfer Edward of Wales astonished chic Biarritz last week by slicing his drives wildly, dubbing, fluffing, missing easiest putts, running his scores well into three figures...
Furious at himself, H. R. H. cabled to Ireland. Next day Archie Compson, towering British golf teacher, left Ireland in a hurry, streaked for Biarritz to coach his royal pupil back to form...
...broad, quiet Plaza de la Constitucíon. But in the second week of July, Pamplona becomes bull-mad, its streets and plaza are full of snuffing, rushing bulls. Hotels and rooming houses overflow with visitors from Madrid, Bilbao, San Sebastian, with tourists from St. Jean-de-Luz, Biarritz and Paris. Peasants from miles around sleep in wagons, in the fields, or do not sleep at all. For four days from 6 a. m. until long after midnight sleep is next to impossible while Pamplona celebrates the Fiesta of San Fermín, its patron saint. There are bullfights, street...