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Quoth a pressman: "That is just what we came to ask you, M. Briand." Smiling, the Premier replied : "Eh bien, I shall be explicit. I am not engaged...
...LOVE GAME?Suzanne Lenglen?Adelphi ($2). Let tongues come out of cheeks and scoffing stifle. As novels go, Suzanne's is no ace, but she has not committed a footfault. No just judge may accuse her of overstepping her knowledge. Her heroine, une jeune fille bien levee, wants to be world tennis champion. Circumstances make it necessary for her to turn professional. She has English suitors. She becomes involved with an Argentine. She gambles at Monte Carlo. Her love affairs are complicated by a code of honor more British than Gallic, and solved by tactics allegedly American?but what shrewd...
...Finance Minister Doumer, who have labored since the first of the year to evolve a finance bill, of any sort acceptable to Parliament, which would produce the revenues indispensable to the state (TIME, March 8 et ante.) As the week closed, an ominous prophecy flew about Paris: "Eh bien! Now we shall have a Dictator or a Soviet or some wizard-demagog like M. Caillaux. Tant pis! So much the worse...
...august Palais Bourbon, presented such an indescribable babel of confusion last week that correspondents seriously pondered whether they should refer to it as a madhouse. They were saved from this scandalous impropriety by a sly wag of the Boulevards who whispered a knowing question in their ears: "Eh bien, Messieurs, avez-vous vu 'Les Folies Bourbon?'" As "The Folies Bourbon," the Chamber passed one of its most chaotic weeks...
...sought the advice of every party, and if in the end the bill was framed to meet the majority opinion, it was because the minority limited its advice to what the Government should not do. . . . The bill is not perfect. . . . It is a positive and creative measure. . . . Regardez-le bien! . . . Is it not the only really constructive attempt which has been made to deal with the present grave fiscal situation...