Word: casino
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...memories. La Bohème was good. It stood for a hundred triumphs, for gay, gay Monte Carlo and her début there a quarter of a century ago, for Russian Grand Dukes and Princesses, the warm scent of orange blossoms, tiny balls spinning in a great casino, the great Caruso who was her Rodolfo, Tosti making great goggle eyes from the front row. It, too, had been the first Covent Garden performance after the War, when a shabby tweed audience replaced the pompous black. Yes, La Bohème was good. But so was Romeo et Juliette, which...
...picturesque idleness on the western shore of the Black Sea, not far from the Danube's mouth, lies Constanta, Roumania's only port. In the casino there can often be seen half a dozen gilded Roumanian admirals who command scarce so many ships...
...owns a major interest in the Monte Carlo Casino Co., which is whimsically entitled La societe anonyme des bains de mer de Monte Carlo (i.e., The Monte Carlo Sea Bathing Corporation...
Friday. Today Lenglen played Mrs. R. E. Haylock (English) and beat her 6-0, 6-0. I took my match from Mrs. Haylock last week, 9-7, 6-2; so it must be granted that Lenglen seems in better form than I am. They say the fops at the Casino are laying 7 to 1 on her and no takers...
...affects my amateur standing, but I don't think he interprets the player-writer rule correctly. . . Spent the morning writing an article supposed to be an analysis of Suzanne Lenglen's style. What these editors like is a few measured generalities. . . . Rain cleared in the afternoon. Tea at the Casino...