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Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser"Wagner Overture, "Le Roi I'a dit" Delibes *Minuet from String Quintet Boccherini *Fantasia, "Madam Butterfly" Puccini Suite, "The Two Pigeons" (after La Fontaine) Messager Entrance of the Gypsies--Scene and Dance of the Two Pigeous-Divertissement ungarian Dance *Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmi *Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin *Selection, "Mile, Modiate" Herbert *"Danube Waves," Waltzes Ivanoviel *"We Saw the Sea," from "Follow the Fleet" Berlin Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...original Paris Crédit Municipal was founded by King Louis XVI, as a noble experiment to see whether the rapacity of private lenders could be checked by the State. It could. Under the august patronage of Napoleon I and his successors, pawnbroking in France has made steady, philanthropic strides. No Crédit Municipal can be founded without the assent of the President of the Republic. Those at Grenoble and Montpellier are so heavily endowed that their interest charge to needy borrowers is zero. In Paris the Crédit Municipal has its seat in an 18th Century palace...
...Kill him! Kill him!" screamed citizens of Bayonne last week as Manager Gustave Tissier of their Crédit Municipal was hustled for questioning to the prefecture. Shocked friends recalled that only recently he was proposed for the Legion of Honor. Now police were saying that Manager Tissier had given jewelry left in pawn to his pretty friend. Impossible? Mais non! Soon grim detectives from Paris were staggering Bayonne with the assertion that Manager Tissier and his handful of jewels were not the point. They claimed, after a hasty rummage through the Crédit Municipal's books, that...
...Stavisky swindle consisted in selling to French insurance companies bonds of the Bayonne Crédit Municipal to an amount fantastically greater than its assets. As in the Kreuger swindle, insurance company directors were duped by the aura of sanctity and good faith around French pawnshop bonds. Especially reassuring was a letter received by insurance companies in 1932 from the Minister of Labor, then M. Albert Dalimier. The letter stressed the fact that under French law insurance companies may hold part of their funds in pawnshop bonds, urged the desirability of doing so, mentioned Bayonne. As the scandal burst last...
...girls come too, and then they go to the dance. All right, I said. So I made a big supper, and when they come already they drank a lot. Then they put whiskey in the wine. My God, yes. I said to Fontan, 'On va etre malade!' 'Oui,' il dit. Then these girls were sick, nice girls, too, all-right girls. They were sick right at the table. Fontan tried to take them by the arm and show them where they could be sick all right in the cabinet, but the fellows said no, they were all right there...