Word: vina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...opening of a gambling casino (boasting "the largest bar in the world"; at Chile's famed seaside resort Vina del Mar,* the mayor of the town cried: "It was due to the personal interest and initiative of President Carlos Ibanez himself that Congress passed the special law enabling us to have games of roulette and baccarat." Observers commented on the fact that dictators like President Ibanez. Primo de Rivera and Prime Minister Mussolini nearly always encourage roulette, while republican governments outlaw...
...couple reach a happy understanding. The shortcomings of Bad Girl are not attributable to poor stagecraft or bad acting, but to the triteness and insignificance of the characters, story, dialog. Assuming that all of God's creatures lead lives that are worth writing about, it is conceivable that Vina Delmar's unimportant boy and girl could be made fictional
Above their barricade the truculent peasants raised a banner. "We Will Kill Every Jew In Transylvania and Buko-vina!" Presently in Bucharest a young anti-Semite forced his way into the Min- istry of Interior, shot acting Minister Constantin Angelescu in the hip, neck, head-perhaps fatally...
...comment on "Dance Hall" now playing at the Keith-Albee Theater must necessarily be limited by the facts that the theater was pleasantly darkened and the waking hours of the reviewer few. It is difficult to determine the exact relation of Vina Delmar, authoress of "Bad Girl" with the plot of this production. Surely there is nothing so dowdily moral as the morality of a cheap Dance Hall as portrayed upon the screen. Yet, the fact remains that the sociologist who may go to gain information on the correct dance gestures and colloquial idiom of the truly jazzy will probably...