Word: cassini
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...swank, fox-hunting Warrenton, Va., Washington Society Columnist Count Igor Cassini (grandson of the late Tsarist Ambassador to the U. S. Count Arthur Cassini) was lured from a country-club dance, tarred & feathered by five aristobrats. Arrested next day were Ian and Colin Montgomery, Alexander Calvert. Reported the Count: "I recognized Ian Montgomery and asked him, 'Why are you doing this to me?' He said I had written in my column that his mother was invited to the reception for the King and Queen of England and that his father had not been invited...
...Columnist Igor Cassini of the Washington Times-Herald printed a categorical denial by Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. that there was any truth in persistent Virginia gossip that he and Ethel du Pont Roosevelt were planning to divorce. Same day Franklin Roosevelt Sr. asked the press to let him make a trip to visit his son & daughter-in-law and F. D. R. Ill (aged nine months) at Charlottesville as "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones"-i. e. without reporters. The correspondents were sorry: "Mr. Jones" would still be President of the U. S., they must go along...
...time-honored theme of the two people who bear an uncanny resemblance to each other and the comedy of errors resulting from the confusion is resurrected for Maurice Chevalier in "Folies Bergere." The amiable Frenchman plays the parts of Eugene Charlier of the "Folies" and baron Cassini, a dashing financier "as well known on the Boulevard as on the Bourse." Since the actor is so good at impersonating the Baron in his act, he eventually comes around to impersonating the distinguished banker when that gentleman is unavoidably absent at a reception he was supposed to be giving various dignitaries...
...crisis in the financial affairs of the banking house of Cassini, represented by the customary vague but impressive "twenty million francs that we must have by morning or we are lost," sets the stage for the bewildered but facetious role that Charlier is to play. But the more provoking situations arise, not from the financial but the romantic connections of the two men. For example, Charlier's wife (Ann Southern) has a flirtation with her husband, believing him to be Cassini, and Cassini's wife (Merle Oberen) flirts with both, knowing only about half the time which is which...
...crisis in the financial affairs of the banking house of Cassini, represented by the customary vague but impressive "twenty million francs that we must have by morning or we are lost." sets the stage for the bewildered, but facetious role that Charlier is to play. But the more provoking situations arise, not from the financial but the romantic connections of the two men. For example, Charlier's wife (Ann Southern) has a flirtation with her husband, believing him to be Cassini, and Cassini's wife (Merle Oberen) flirts with both, knowing only about half the time which is which...