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According to Scotland Yard and the French Surete Nationale, M. Roger Marcel Vernon, one of the few white slavers ever to escape from Devil's Island and resume slaving, flew from Paris to London last week with trusted henchmen to supervise the murder of "Ginger Max" Kassel...
...fear, compelled him to state simple, fundamental truths, although he suffered the torments of the damned in doing so. Remaining ten essays in the volume trace the Rousseau tradition through the careers of Restif de la Bretonne, Alexandre de Tilly, Hugo and others to its modern representative in Marcel Proust. Restif, "the gutter Rousseau," wrote the 18th Century equivalent of True Confession stories, carried Rousseau's ideas to the logical absurdity of idealizing prostitution. A more impressive figure, Tilly was a minor Casanova in the period after the Revolution, left a volume of memoirs that have only recently been...
...with a memory of the great catastrophe at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, when thousands of the common people were trampled to death, includes a brief account of Marie Scheikévitch's marriage and divorce, but is memorable for its portraits of celebrities, particularly that of Marcel Proust. Marie Scheikévitch knew Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, was on intimate terms with Jules Lemaître and other are eminant, but her friendship with Proust was particularly close. She presents him as warm, readily animated, generous, possesing a gift for mimcry. She says that after...
Frenchmen elected their first 100% Communist Senator last week in the droop-mustached, doctrinaire person of M. Marcel Cachin, editor of L'Humanité. Another freak feature of the poll, which left the Senate still an assembly of oldster moderates: Premier Laval was elected Senator twice over, has until Jan. 14 to decide which of two constituencies he will represent for the next nine years...
Holworthy 20--Marcel Francon of Cambridge; Instructor in Romance Languages...