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...country priests of not less than half a billion francs ($19,500,000). This stupendous swindle was carried on from Paris through branch offices in almost every provincial city and town of consequence in France. During the past year fictional corporations with such vague names as L'Union Française d'Emission and La Société Syndicate Fonciére were organized and floated at the rate of slightly less than one a day. When the crash came some 400 employes of Swindleress Hanau organized themselves into the "Society for the Defense of Honor," protesting...
...Barry, mistress of France's King Louis XV, had several beds. The most famed is to be put on the auction block, along with other antiques, in Paris, on Dec. 6, by the present owner, Comtesse de Segur (Cécile Sorel), actress of the Comédie-Française...
Proudly announced by the French Government's new Office Français du Tourisme in Manhattan was the opening, last week, of a new transAlpine railway linking smart Monte Carlo and Nice directly with Northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany...
...Unknown Warrior. Paul Raynal, who fought in French trenches, wrote the play and it was presented four years ago at the Comédie Français amid the indignant growls of old men. Since then it has been played all over Europe, to great cheers in Germany, and the approval of Bernard Shaw in London. Last week Charles Hopkins, who now has a small theatre of his own in which to produce the plays he likes, unveiled it for Manhattan...
White Lilacs. With appropriate adaptations of waltz and mazurka, the Shubert Brothers offered this glib and pleasant operetta based upon the life of famed Composer Frederic François Chopin. It stresses the episodes in which the composer was seen about with George Sand, meeting her at the home of the Countess d' Agoult and playing or grieving with her at Majorca...