Word: casino
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yearly thrill in the Casino this year was supplied by an unnamed Armenian resident of Paris who, in two hours, lost 900,000 francs ($41,850.00). Last year André Citroën, famous French automobile manufacturer, was the public cynosure. He was reported to have won more than 1,000,000 francs, about $65,000 at that time, at a single sitting...
...that matter, except to say that each of the latter two government-subsidized theatres presents a repertory season including the classics and semi-classics of the French stage as well as occasional new pieces. Almost equally well known in their way are the Follies Bergéres and the Casino de Paris, the two big theatres that house revues of the Ziegfeld Follies sort-only very much franker...
...profits for last season of the Casino at Monte Carlo amounted to 65,860,170 francs (approximately $4,345,971), an increase of 4,000,000 francs ($264,000) over last year...
Thus-despite the recently Tin-earthed frauds exposed by the Prince of Monaco, the amazing credence of "bank-breakers with a system,"the usual official despondency over the Casino profits, the lack of "high play" and the increased cost of maintaining that costly establishment-the Casino has done well...
...Bound. The heroine's papa is murdered following a raid on a Florida Casino. To everyone but the audience the hero looks like the bad boy with the knife. He isn't. But the cast has a chance to wear a lot of expensively terrible clothes. It is one of those full dress suit movies where everything appears to have been hired for the occasion...