Word: casino
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Going to Monte? Really? You know it is FRIGHTFULLY passé." Such has been the comment of smart folk, for several seasons, to anyone who proposed a visit to once smart Monte Carlo. Of course the crowds at the Casino tables have been as large as ever-but unfashionable. What to do? The families of Blanc, Radziwill, Bonaparte, chief stockholders in the Casino, have been puzzling for some time. They are now trying an experiment: Miss Elsa Maxwell. Miss Maxwell is very large, very mirthful, very well known in the U. S. colony at Paris. There must, naturally...
When "Lillie Langtry," now Lady de Bathe, entered the Casino at Monte Carlo last week, after the trial in London was over, she was surrounded by purring women friends who rushed to kiss and congratulate her upon her vindication...
Which returns one immediately to a congenial subject. In yesterday's Boston Herald it was announced that the present histrionic treat at Waldron's Casino is "real burlesque of the old school". Now there may be those who do not know what "old school" burlesque is. They have never been west of Allentown, Pennsylvania, on the Lehigh. Nor have they tried that excellent establishment, the Howard Athenaeum. Of course the best friend after a visit to burlesque of the "old school" is an old clothes merchant, for where there's smoke there's sure to be smell...
Captain Alfred Lowenstein, Belgian billionaire: "I, who am sometimes reputed the richest man in Europe, was barred last week from entering the Bellevue Casino at Biarritz, France, because, though in evening dress myself, I was accompanied by a secretary not formally garbed. Doubling my fist I made contact with the loutish doorman's jaw, passed within. When he instituted suit against me for assault next day, I retained to defend me the celebrated barrister, onetime Finance Minister de Monzie of France. My extravagances include the ownership of a fleet of airplanes which bring to me, wherever...
Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti (Pope Pius XI) announced last week that, in view of the Mexican crisis, he would postpone his vacation. As everyone knows, the Sanctissimus Pater, goes vacationing each year, despite his self-imposed "imprisonment," by moving out from the stuffy Vatican to his cool Casino in the Vatican Gardens. During the week Bishop Diaz of Tabasco, Mexico, displayed to newsgatherers a communication from the Papal Secretary of State, Pietró Cardinal Gasparri, conveying the displeasure of His Holiness with the Mexican Constitution and President Calles' enforcement statutes: "The Holy See condemns these laws (TIME, July...