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Washington he finished seventh and last in the world's championship 18.2 balkline billiard tournament, winning not a game. Last week he began the 1929 tournament in New York by vanquishing Edouard Horemans, of Belgium, the sleek, wavy-haired, temperamental titleholder, 400 to 292. Then he outcued Felix Grange of France, then Eric Hagenlacher of Germany. His chances of winning seemed so good that he calmly announced: "I really believe that I'll go right through the field...
...entertainments will feature a program being arranged by the Union for this week-end. This afternoon at 4 o'clock Edouard Horemans, world's champion 18.2 balk-line billiard player, and Welker Cochran, American title-holder, will play an exhibition match in the living room...
...herself in Manhattan's latest smart-chart, The American Sketch. With her were many more, bewailing, in violent fashion, the too few compliments with which U. S. critics had observed her, and other words celebrating the pretty speeches made to her by Max Reinhardt and polite Edouard Bourdet. Principally, it appeared to be a blast of publicity for Actress Barrymore's latest venture into theatrics, which last week opened in Manhattan, The Kingdom...
...bald, rich Joseph Caillaux, onetime Prime Minister (1911-12) master intriguer among the Left Parties. Torpedoist Caillaux sank the Sacred Union by forcing four of its members, including Edouard Herriot, to resign in obedience to a caucus of their own party, stampeded by Demagog Caillaux...
...also infamous son of Pons, the late Prime Minister Justin Louis Emile Combes 1903-1905. Due to his efforts the Roman Catholic Church was disestablished in France, and ever since Combes has been a hero to the parties of the Left and to the Clericals a dastard. As Edouard Herriot prepared to pull the unveiling cord, he was conscious that a crowd by no means wholly friendly surged around him. Raising his deep timbred voice in sonorous appeal the Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts cried: "After a lifetime of bitter struggle, Emile Combes declared: 'I never expect...