Word: casino
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pair cavorted, banknotes fluttered after her like autumn leaves. Scandalized, the Casino management detailed two croupiers to follow Spendthrift Josephine Baker, famed blackamoor danseuse, around the ballroom, collecting banknotes which they returned to her when her ebullience had subsided...
...disquieting news of last week was that a French company with $4,500,000 capitalization has acquired the right to make Andorra a second "Monte Carlo" and proposes to have a roulette casino and hotel de luxe completed...
Last year, a crisis came in the affairs of the Stockbridge art colony. Spinster Mabel Choate bought the property on which the Casino stood, and proposed to erect a memorial to her famed father, Lawyer-Ambassador Joseph Hodges Choate. She offered the Casino to anyone who would cart it away...
Colonist Clark said he would move the Casino, transform it into the headquarters of the Three Arts Association. It should be dedicated to music, drama, art. He ran into difficulties. Nervous colonists, fearing for velvety grass, symmetrical trees, refused to allow him to move it bodily. Accordingly, he pulled it down and moved it stick by stick to its new setting farther down the street. It became, the Berkshire Playhouse...
...others were not so familiar. Colonist Clark had drawn on the resources of his Manhattan gallery. In the old Casino days, only the colonists took their masterpieces to the exhibitions. Last week, many an artist was represented whose connection with Stockbridge had been a fleeting visit to the Berkshires...