Word: casino
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become the first U. S. composer and librettist to have an opera which was their joint work produced in Europe. They were aided by "Doc" Leahy, of the old San Francisco Tivoli, in their eventually successful efforts to have their opera, Fay-Yen-Fah, produced by the Monte Carlo Casino Opera Company. Last week these two young men were "showered with real orchids" as their opera had its U. S. premiere in San Francisco...
...night club. To make their investment the more lucrative, the brothers determined to incorporate these performers into a revue on the Century Roof. This handsome playhouse, which for so long was the lodging of the Chauve-Souris, has been completely and tastefully redecorated for the occasion and named the Casino de Paris...
...Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769) first systematized the laws of whist, and it became a byword: "according to Hoyle." His treatises also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...Newport. "In few cases was the ball returned!" With this journalistic naivete a pressman described the match between William M. Johnton and Brian I. C. Norton at the Newport Casino. No epigram could have summed it up as neatly. Johnston, since he already won the tournament on two previous years gained permanent possession of the Casino silver bowl, valued...
...Kiosk is to be turned into a casino on the lines of those at Monte Carlo and Nice. Hotel accommodations, cinemas, amusement parks, are also to be constructed. The Turks hope many people will come to Constantinople...