Word: casino
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anglo-Belgian company announced that it will build a casino, erect restaurants and lay out pleasure grounds at its own expense. The Municipal Council of Heligoland decided to accept the proposition, principally on account of the bad financial state of the island and its inhabitants. It was also announced that the municipality will receive a percentage of the bank's receipts in exchange for the concession...
...reason for this outburst of adulation from Paris is that it was discovered that Zaharoff saved the Casino during the war by a princely " donation" of one million pounds ($4,650,000), and so obtained an interest in La Societe de Bains de Her de Monaco-the official title of the world's greatest gambling house...
...addition to the four scheduled performances of the trip, two benefit performances of some of the specialties were given. The first of these was held in the Casino Theatre in New York City on Sunday evening April 15, in behalf of the Boy Scouts of America, while the second was given on Tuesday afternoon in Washington before about 700 wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed Hospital...
Camille Blanc, director of the Casino for 30 years, was summoned to the palace and there informed that he was relieved of his functions. Blanc fainted when the order was read to him and again on reaching his residence; he is now suffering from a paralytic stroke. His dismissal follows the exile from the municipality of Mme. Chinon, famous adventuress, " Madame Pompadour of Monaco." It is the outcome of some remarkable revelations of graft unearthed by special auditors appointed by the Prince. Recently Prince Louis discovered that the Principality had been defrauded of more than...
Camille Blanc, is the son of the famous Pere Blanc who, after a series of misfortunes in Germany, settled at Monte Carlo some 40 years ago and amassed a huge fortune. His son took over the management of the Casino at his death but it is stated that outside influences in the shape of Mme. Chinon, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Gregory Vigliano gradually divested him of his interest and his wealth. It is stated that Camille is today little better than a bankrupt...