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Dates: during 1930-1939
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11?Opening of eighth annual season of the San Francisco Opera Association; in San Francisco. Feature: U. S. premiere of Ravel's "L'Enfant et les Sortileges...
...members of this potent gaming cabal are Messrs. Koujongeorg, Andre (French gambling-house proprietor), Zar-eth and Zographos. Supposed assets: some 1,200,000,000 francs ($46,800,000). For almost ten years these gentlemen have run the baccarat banks at Deauville, Cannes, Monte Carlo. Biarritz, La Baule, Aix-les-Bains, Juan-les-Pins, Le Touquet. They have prospered to the extent of paying 25,000% in dividends to their 50-odd investors. Most famed member of the group is M. Zographoo, whose extravagance is voitures de grand sport (fast automobiles) and whose reputation for honesty is only equalled...
...Juan-les-Pins up stepped Major John ("Dashing Jack") Coats, millionaire Englishman, no relative of the potent thread-spinning house of Coats. Most experienced gambler next to the Greeks, he had just won 1,000,000 francs from the Syndicate. He would take over the bank, hold it all summer if need be "to break the Greek Syndicate and put baccarat in the hands of sportsmen who play for the love of the game." "Sportsmen," he gallantly declared, "do not necessarily play for profit...
...sunparty on one of the societies' discreetly enclosed lawns, Les Grecs appear in classic Greek draperies of sheerest gauze. Les Purs appear in the scantiest of Chitons (shirts), barely conforming to the French law against absolute nudity
Year ago Moscow's Central Market, corresponding to Les Holies in Paris, was abolished and distribution of perishables entrusted to the Cooperative...