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Inside, the finishing touches had been made. Artists had just put the last bright reds and yellows to the 25-ft. mural showing a Puerto Rican feast-day celebration; roulette wheels, chemin de fer and dice tables had been moved into the casino. The blue-tiled swimming pool cut out of the coral rock and the bright yellow-awninged beach cabanas were all ready for the first guests...
...Cannes, Columnist Elsa Maxwell helped Producer Jack Warner clean up at chemin de fer. "I was sitting . . . by his side . . . and I started to move," wrote Elsa. "He showed the only signs of superstition I've ever seen in him. 'Don't uncross your legs, honey,' Jack warned." She said she stuck it out for an hour and Jack won a million francs...
...This is our first class in a long time. There is much to do. All that is needed is a very good will. . . . When a French soldier asks you the way, you will be able to smile and say, Je vous montrerai le chemin-I will show...
Meantime the main waves of Germany's attack rose higher between Noyon on the Oise River and Soissons on the Aisne. The Oise valley was Hitler's broadest, easiest approach to Paris. To command it fully his forces had to storm the high bridge called Chemin des Dames-just north of the Oise-Aisne Canal, and then win a foothold on the Aisne's south bank, to converge on Compiegne and the scene of the 1918 Armistice's signing. This they accomplished by the battle's fifth evening, with appalling loss of life...
...Tango. Rows of scarlet neon lights picked them out from stem to stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might crave. Below were elegant dining rooms, bars, long rows of slot machines...