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...roulette it seems certain that many hundreds of thousands of people will assemble in the famous salons to listen to the monotonous chant of the croupiers: "Messieurs, faites vos jeux." "Les jeux sont faits." "Rien ne va plus." "Zero!" Then will follow the usual clatter of "blancs, rouges et plaques" accompanied by the suppressed groans of the gamblers, except, of course, the tittering individual in the corner who had five francs on zero...
...statues and returned imitations. Six fake antique statues had been sold to the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Twenty per cent of the Gothic statuary in the Metropolitan was not bona fide. A prominent New York and Paris dealer made a practice of selling clever forgeries to " These dirty Americans," et cetera, et cetera...
...been suggested that at the end of about the fourth week, Judge Gary should come in a close second to Samuel Gompers' first. That would be a good story. It might get on the front page. A poll by the Delineator, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, Pictorial Review, et cetera, would follow, giving the election, perhaps, to Mrs. George Follansbee Babbitt...
...unspectacular contribution; The Adding Machine, with its satire, gloom and power; tangled recollections of a score of interesting things-the robots-James Barton's dancing-the lace-ballet in the Follies-the Texas Nightingale-the war scene in The Insect Comedy - Stanislavsky - the unfortunate " 49ers "-Cyril Maude -et cetera. At all events it was a rich and entertaining feast...
...program of tonight's speeches follows: "L'Italie at La France", Louis Salano '24 "La Question de la Ruhr", De Vaux de Lancey '24 "Les Etats-Unis et la Ligue des Nations", H. F. Potter '23 Violin solo: "Chanson a Louis XIII et Pavanne", Mme. Marie Dalliere, Violinist Miss Susan Williams, Accompanist "L'Avenir Colonial de la France", Meyer Rubin '24 "Le Retablissement d'Etats-Generaux", W. O. Clark '23 "M. Raymound Poincare", H. M. Hite ocC. Violin Solos: Minuet, Gluck Gavotte, Lully Tambourin, Leclair Mme. Marie Dalliere