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...investors it was loudly charged that Raoul Peret, Minister of Justice, had been receiving secret sums from the Oustric bank. Prime Minister Tardieu defended his minister in the Chamber, was booted out of power by the Senate (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week the Oustric case grew hotter & hotter. Clement Moret, governor of the Bank of France, testified that in 1926 as an official in the Ministry of Finance he had published a favorable report on one Oustric stock, an Italian artificial silk company known as Snia Viscosa, at the direct order of M. Peret, then Finance Minister. Later testimony showed...
...recently acquired U. S. Economist Oliver Sprague (with his valet) boarded at Southampton the S. S. Bremen bound for New York. Already aboard was Governor George L. Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, fresh from a swing around Europe which included conferences with Governor Clement Moret of the Bank of France in Paris and with President of the Reichsbank Hans Luther in Berlin, whence he boarded the Bremen at Bremen. Seemingly there was to be a transatlantic Norman-Harrison conference. There was a trans-channel conference. But as the Bremen neared Cherbourg the two English valets were...
...somewhat improved, and Samuel Insulls new rose & gold auditorium was a sumptuous background for Swifts, McCormicks, Ryersons, Fields, Drakes, Dicks and their neighbors. But the fantastic steel curtain (medley of trumpeters, poultry and a naked girl) went up on an opera never before heard in the U. S.: Ernest Moret's Lorenzaccio, based on the play of Alfred de Musset, with Baritone Vanni-Marcoux in the title role created by him ten years ago in Paris...
...Chicago the Civic Opera Company did the unusual, chose no well-proven piece for curtain-raiser, no outstanding soprano. For its first night, also Oct. 27, it will present the U. S. premiere of Frenchman Ernest Moret's Lorenzaccio, an adaptation of a carnal plot by Alfred de Musset, with Baritone Vanni-Marcoux singing the title role created by him ten years ago in Paris...
...supremely introversive ego. This good piece recounts the story of John Payson, green-ired husband of Nan. John (John Boles) wants to lead his wife's life. From an afternooon party Nan (Leatrice Joy) comes home befuddled, having been locked accidentally in the wine-cellar of Jules Moret (H. B. Warner) whose name alone, as every cinemaddict knows, reeks of malevolence, depravity. When John flays Nan she departs, gets a job as a companion. Her employer, it so happens, is Moret's mistress. Soon the mistress suspects an affair between Moret & Nan. deserts Moret, who realizes Nan still...