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...Dien ("I Serve") is the motto of the Prince of Wales. Last week, between the hours of 3:30 a. m. and dawn, H. R. H. served all comers to the Chilean Casino at Vina del Mar as dealer for the "big" baccarat bank...
...present Edward of Wales (the future King Edward VIII) has very seldom touched baccarat cards or chips, though often he has had his equerry play for him. Play at Vina del Mar is not high. For only 10,000 pesos ($1,200). H. R. H. bought the "bank," i. e. the right to hold and deal cards to the players who would all win to him or lose to him as Fate decreed (there is no "skill," or almost none, in baccarat...
...little is, in fact, to have better luck than average; but for the Prince of Wales to have actually won only $50.40 was terrible publicity for Vina del Mar. Next night, when Prince George took the bank, Chilean publicity experts reported his winnings as 50,000 pesos...
...Dancing the tango at Vina del Mar's Casino, H. R. H. belied advance press notices from London that he can tango. According to Chilean experts, what H. R. H. did was something between a tango and a waltz. "This made his steps," wrote one courteous Chilean, "quite the most unusual and newest on the floor." ¶ Entertaining a delegation of more than 100 Cuban business leaders, Britain's "Empire Salesman" used the American technique, served a typically hard "salesman's cocktail." ¶ Yachting on Lake Llanquihue, Chile, whence they proceeded to Lake Fria, Argentina...
Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wire less, Senator and Marchese of Italy, builder of station HVJ, great & good friend of His Holiness, fell to his knees, kissed the papal ring. The Pope was smiling, showed traces of excitement. The Mar chese Marconi and entourage entered the small building over a thick red-and-blue carpet. Whimsically His Holiness threw in switches which set electrical devices in motion; he tapped a wireless key, punched a teletypewriter's keys, proceeded to the transmitting room where from a throne he spoke to All Creation...