Word: casino
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before he was 12, Chevalier painted dolls in a factory at Menilmontant, near Paris. He tried to be an acrobat but sprained his ankle. Later he made three francs an evening imitating famed singers in the Casino des Tourelles. He danced with Mistinguette at the Folies-Bergere, went to war, escaped from a German prison camp to get back to the Folies. Ernst Lubitsch (the Patriot) will direct him in an operetta...
This winter ingenious promoters devised a way to keep some of the U.S. gold in town for the evening. They withdrew two miles from Tiajuana to a spot called Agua Caliente. Here they built a beautiful hotel and beside it a large and luxurious gambling casino. While the rabble is fleeing for the border from Tiajuana, the lazy rich man is beginning to dress for dinner at Agua Caliente...
...Casino Syndicate is corruptly concealing profits and nefariously neglecting public works which it has contracted to perform. Item: the electric plant frequently breaks down. Item: so do the waterworks. Item: ditto the telephones...
Through angry muttering crowds of Monégasques, Prince Pierre proceeded resolutely to confer with members of the resigned National Council, and especially with soft-voiced, steel-eyed M. Léon, the young manager of Monte's famed Casino...
...Casino Syndicate has used its monopoly power to the detriment of all other "enterprises" in Monaco, suppressing cinema theatres and discontinuing fetes which used to fill even the small hotels with tourists. 4) The authority of the Crown and the extent of the crown lands are still so vaguely defined that in practice the Prince-and in his name the Casino Syndicate-has frequently acted in a manner arbitrary, unjust, scandalous. Finally the resigned and angry councilors made formal demand upon Prince Pierre that he summon his father-in-law Prince Louis from Paris and set up a commission...