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...station by a French crowd in which prominent Frenchmen were conspicuous by their absence, M. Briand had accepted a large bouquet of red roses from a young woman, apparently of the working class. Her face was tearstained. Overcome by emotion she managed to gasp, "I-I love you, Monsieur le President!" For a moment the old, defeated man standing at the door of his Pullman did not reply. Then accepting the roses with a low bow, he said: "I would rather hear those words from you, Madame, than from the best qualified member of the National Assembly."* After the train...
...Monsieur A Le Grand, proprietor of the French company which makes the sticky, sweetish brown liqueur called Benedictine, crisply told correspondents last week that U. S. citizens residing in France now handle bootleg shipments from that end. "Frankly these American bootleggers are the best of customers," said M. Le Grand. "We deliver our goods f. o. b. Havre or Bordeaux and are paid on the spot. For Benedictine we are paid $1 a bottle, and we do not complain, I assure you Messieurs. We are told that these same goods are sold in America for $10 a bottle...
Incognito as "Monsieur Adolphe," His Majesty King Gustaf V arrived for his usual winter sojourn on the French Riviera last week, made for a charity gala at the Casino in Cannes. Strolling in late, Monsieur Adolph learned that 25 tickets for the charity raffle remained unsold, bought ail of them. Few hours later he learned he had won a building lot at a new Riviera resort now striving mightily to push itself. Lotteries, beauty contests, automobile raffles and all such on the Riviera are very often "fixed." Even smarter is the usual way of naming prizes. The prettiest girl...
Colonel Satan. Booth Tarkington has turned back to the mood of his first best seller, Monsieur Beaucaire, a slender novelette which became a play and afterward a cinematographic vehicle for the late Rudolph Valentino, as a source for this romantic costume melodrama about Aaron Burr. Unfortunately, that mood is not recaptured, probably not recapturable, for the inspiration of Monsieur Beaucaire, of its swagger and dandyism, was youth, and in Colonel Satan there is no youth and no reality except a shadow of the personal bad luck of the courageous man who wrote it. Author of a dozen engaging novels...
...high treason in the commonly understood sense-not the special Soviet sense in which sabotage is construed as treasonable. In the summer of 1929 Professor Ramzin, according to his own statement, betrayed the more im- portant plans and secrets of the Soviet Air Force to a "French secret agent, Monsieur R., who seemed very pleased...