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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...
...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