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Within their long lives, however, neither Francois de Wondol nor Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider has ever let drop a word to indicate that he sees any connection between his business and an eventual ruin of his capitalistic industry. Only Sir Basil Zaharoff, doddering brokenly in his wheel chair, seems to give any outward evidence of disillusionment. That may be only because he gambled $20,000,000 of his personal fortune on the only war in which he ever took emotional sides--the Greco-Turkish War in 1921--and lost...
...action of the play centers about Prosper, the keeper of an 18th-century night club, a former theatre-director, and now an ardent revolutionist, who entertains his noble patrons with short criminal sketches, in which fact and fiction are indissolubly intertwined. As the news of the fall of the Bastille arrives, all the players throw off their disguises and give vent to their true feelings. The high point of the play is reached in the murder of Duke Emile, bringing to a climax a train of intrigue so typical of the spirit of that...
...sweep the State along in a course of action against its own will. They are all but anonymous, these men. They are displeased by publicity and are well able to enforce their displeasure. But we must now displease one of them and present the figure of M. Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider...
...Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider is a man of many offices the executive head of hundreds of armament firms throughout Europe. He is President of the Schneider-Creuset company, armament manufacturers with mines, smelters, and foundries scattered through France. He is director of the Banque de I'Union Parisienne, one of whose most profitable sources of business is the financing loans for armaments. In 1920 he founded and became the President of the Union Europeenne Industrial et Financier--a holding company, capitalized at 140,000,000 Frances. Through it Schneider-Creusto controls 182 French companies that manufacture heavy ordnance, machine guns...
...were at the Chicago World's Fair last Summer, all brought together in one show called "Midway Nights" featuring Rosalia and her fan dance, Mona Lesllie's "nudity in gold" which created such a furore in the "Streets of Paris" at the Fair, Andrini Brothers from the "Spanish Pavilion," Prosper and Maret from "Oriental Village," and Dave Lee, the Midway comic. On the screen the newest Fox Film, "Coming Out Party," is presented with Frances Dee and Gene Raymond heading the cast...