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The editor of the “Tailor and Cutter," has been analysing the list) of the world's 10 best dressed men. It was compiled' by' tailorsi in Lon-} don, Hollywood, and New York.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
STAVISKY-HIS PAST AND BACKGROUND
AMAZING CAREER OF ARCH-SWINDLER
REVELS ON THE RIVIERA
(By George Slocombe.)
They have all the literary dis- tinction, combined with unsparing candour, which the public are accus-
Sergo Alexandre Stavisky died Banned from the table at one tomed to expect from this distin- on January. 9 following the Bayon-casino after another for cheating, guished sartorial journalist, ne bond swindle, leaving behind he calmly founded a chain of Of Lord Westmorland, who heads him an inconsolable widów, · ́s establishments which bought the tailors' "list, the editor' of the Government shaken to its founda-jewelas at low prices from needs Tailor and Cutter" says that histions, several of his subordinates gamblers and raised money at the lordship is notable for comblaing in prison on grave charges, many Credit Municipal of Orisano, d stylish morning dress with comfort, banka, insurance societies and pri During this period the venturea and in the summer dispenses with vate investors the bearers of of Stavisky grew to amazing, pro- his waistcoat under a smartly cut worthless bonds, and a
nation portions. He founded elaema marning coat."
moved partly to anger and partly trusts and Co-operative societies. The clothes of Sir John Buchanan-to admiration by the most auda and even launched a fantastic in- Jardino arouse this talented pen to cious series of swindles operated vention which was said to deter enthusiasm. Sir John "comes near France within living memory.mine approaching maternity.
Consider the career of this ex- to perfection at Ascot, for withi
He lived on a lavish scale. H finiess formal clothes he adds traordinary man from the day, 47 had, like Louis XIV, a sumptuous
years ago, on which he Ha
chateau at Marly, to which he. In top-hat is never stereotyped, his in Russian snows at Sobodkato, tolvited the great figures in cosmo-
the day on which he fell, hunted politan Paris society. cravat and collar are individual.
like a tracked beast to his lair in By day be is a study in elegance, the snows above Chamonix.
He moved from Cannes to by night à sartorial nocturne.”
Krenger moved in the upper cir-Deauville, from Nice to Biarritz in
the same state 48 an cles of international finance. Sta-
Eastern tain-always well turned out, invisky moved in the lower. His was beautiful Faris mannequin.
prince. Finally, he married a
several
individual traits.
And so to Sir Austen Chamber-
sombre but unimpeachable style.”
*
The Monster Day By Day There was news in England last month of yet another "monster."
It was a sea-horse, and it lived in Loch Swainaval, in the Lewes.
A sportsman rented the shooting| His pre-war
round this loch.
ter."
The same authority has an
the
was born
career had
issue
minor
the peculiar underworld of gam-) bling resorts, speculations in rot. Ja 1926, however, a ten currencies, and traffic in for disaster had occured. One of his bidden pleasures. A hundred men frauda was discovered, and be was of his type can be found to-day immured in the Sante Prison. His moving in the dark purlícus of the dentist, who, like himself, was Black Bourse in Berlin Vienna, father,
surgeon- a respectable and Paris.
naturalised Frenchman. com- been mitted suicide in despair at his He was told by his gillie that some girls saw the comparatively uneventful, a charge son's diagrace.
of fraud in connection sea-horse basking on a sandy beach shopkeepers' gala which he had question, and he was soon released, with 1 Stavisky appealed on a technical nightly Review"). Congressmen and fled in terror. He had never! are said to be twenty to one in seen the beast himself, but his organised in the Champs Elysee and from that time he was not Hong Kong, Thursday, Feb. 8, 1934, favour of a
general issue of father had seen its spoor in thearned him three months' imprison- molested until the end. "greenbacks" from the printing snow.
ment, which, however, he did not He was next heard of in press, and the farmers to be "în On being asked how his father changed his name-one
serve as a first offender. Later he Budapest. He had several projects Cost of the "New Deal."flationist to a man.” The pro-had known that they were
of many for making a fabulous fortune changes and began again. poved new outlay of 14,500 mil tracks of the sea-horse he replied:
composed by employing the His record during the war' is machinery of one of the provincial President Roosevelt's financial hon dollars to stimulate employ. "Because they were just like battles." lost save that he evaded military Credits Municipaux-of which be ment over two years follows House agents are beginning to an service by a subterfuge, which can had already seen the advantages- policy is taking rapid turns, as,
lustrated by the estimate that upon a "fundamental change in nounce houses as "with desirable be only guessed at by the French to tap the inexhaustible savings of the cost of the Federal Govern-the relief programme" ordered views over Loch Ness and the mons-police, Aud he emerged from the French nation and divert a ment's contingent liabilities un-by the President curly in Nov-
these fateful years smiling, with a large part of them The Bunyip Exposed.
into his own der current programmes is 15,135 ember. The designed absorption
string of new enterprises and new pocket. His methods had the sit- As for the "bunyip," the report-aliases. million dollars., equal at to-day's of 6,000,000 unemployed by the
plicity of genius... beginning of winter having fail-lived for some years in the bush of the authorities in 1921.
ed Australian monster. A man who He next came under the notice rate to about £3,000,000,000;
Orgies to Hungary ed, the President issued instruc-states that there is no such, animal, sterling. Foreign commentatorsj
tions for the expenditure of 600 except in the imagination of the self-confidence had charmed and who is now arrested on charges of His gay good looks and insolent onne was managed by M. Tissier
The Credit Municipal of Bay agree the chief difficulty en- countered by Washington has million dollars in November. De-Australian aborigine,
Yanquished cember, and January, in remov-
834 impressionable fraud, and as a been the non-response of capital]
ex-young actress to whom a French insitution is empowered by the provincial credit investment to the plan of "un-ing from the relief rolls 2,000,000 planation of the roaring noise pilot, killed in the wat, had left State to
workless men at one. (November which, emanating from dertaking social reform as
Lake considerable bequest in jewels securities.
bonds against means of nourishing national reber L. They are to be employed other monster story on its rounds. with
8) and 2,000,000 mare on Decem-George, near Canberra, started an-Stavisky persuaded her to part Friends of Stavisky induced in- |covery." Mr. T. Balogh, an econo-},
the jewels, and when the dustrial insurance societies and The noise, he says, han now been lovers mist, writing in the Ninteenth 50 dollars a month on rondle,
parted company the other public corporations to buy Century forecast that collapse leaving still 4,000,000 (6,000,000 emits a loud, hoarse roar.
parks, and sanitation works, fally accurately traced to the cock humiliated woman prosecuted him. Bayonne bonds as a
bustard, which at mating would face the President unless according to the Federation of
He was Season
reputable sentenced this time to and safe investment. the Government should greatly Labour) dependent on charity.
13 months' imprisonment, But
These bonds purchased were after three months, the smooth only debited to a percentage of: increase its investment in fields The "dole" rate for these is 20
tongued ...... adventurer had been their nominal value in the books into which business entre-
dollars a month. The "New When Mr. Frederick Wilson, Ber. acquitted on appeal: a most un-of the Bayonne establishment. preneurs could not yet he per-York Times," in discussing this lin's old British resident, who slow-moving French Appeal Court. Stavisky to finance a much more usual event in the annals of the The difference was pocketed by recently died, went to Germany 65 Even then the protective shadow considerable deal--the buying out, special winter programme, says avenues of such Government in that 400 of the 600 millions will years ago he wore a kilt, to the of powerful friends in the back of the Hungarian optants whose
come out of the 3,800 millions
surprise of the Berliners, destitute un-warks appropriation sanctioned ence he had in Hamburg during the
A Scot tells of the frying exper-round seemed to be cast over the claims to compensation were recog employed, direct public works by Congress, and that there will Boer War. He, too, wore the kilt
|enterprise, of“Stavinky..
nised under The Hague.. settle (roads and housing), and cheap then be 600 million dollars reschoolboy. When he went to
Lived in Lay Of Luxury ment. loans in subsidy of commercial maining in that "relief reser spend a holiday at Altona. Ham- although the police shadowed him figure in the social life of the From 1921 onward: he was im- -Accordingly, we find Starfsky, in mune from police- intervention, and Budapest. He becomes a familiar investment. This is precisely voir."
That is to say, the Gov-burg's leading suburb, he ignored everywhere, as he actually once Hungarian capital. He is received what Washington is now pro-ernment will have spent of it advice to discard the kill posing to do. The new special 2,700 million since mid-June, a
Every day he was
complained to M. Chiappe, Prefect by the ex-Premier, Count Jules rate of about 400 millions a
followed programme over two years
month. The N.R.A. building pro-crowds of urchins. Their favourite
through
the streets by jearing of Police, Stavisky's audacity grew Karolyi, and the late Count Kata- mooted by an N.R.A. survey con-
Buy Grand Master of the Order. templates expenditure in such hereafter to spend at a rate of cry was "Look at the pretty Eng gramme now reported proposes
From 1921-28 his multifarious of Maits, and both received from ways' of 14,500 million dollars, 600 million dollars a month for lah girl.”- [most of it additional to the two years. It seems that thei original, estimate of contingent Congress appropriation has not| Habilities, An outstanding item generally been spent in the man in this programme is housing, per designed — that is, in allot- For weeks business and financial ment to. States and cities on pon Small balloons carrying automa- critics in the United States have dition of local contribution to the radio equipment have reported been representing that it is im-the loan fund. During the de- atmospheric conditions at an oleva possible to expect commercial pression then local authorities ton of 50,000 feet to experimentera investment in house-building, allowed by their Constitutions,
have borrowed up to the limit in Europe. though much, waits, to be done, and are now unable to borrow
suaded. He showed that the
vestment would have to be these] -subsidies to
The Kilt In Germany
Facts You Did Not Know.
in an era of rising prices, declin- any more. Hence, such distri- * A tracing box with an inside light| ing dollar values, and uncertain-bution of Federal funds has in has been invented for drawing ty about, inflation. That in many instances, been withheld duplicating machine stencils that stance will stand for the difficulty under the law, and the funds prevents the stencils being heated which Washington finds in get-have, been dribbled out in other by the light, ting, the individual investor to ways. A considerable breach, too, risk his money, and the reason has been made in the Adminis why national funds are to be em-tration's original rule that the being tried on the Indian State ployed to take his place. But Inn self-liquidating, that is, Railways in an endeavour to reduce money should be expended only Levitably the community will strictly, reproductive, enterprises, the expense of operating Trains for
have to pay for this huge
ure, and the oppositio
Openrils
the
rded up his
play, of Go
It is clear that this vast Govern ment outlay on credit is alarm=j
Diesel-electric locomotives"
xhbit distanc
Bre
ng: 4hinking Americans, Band) A new fos cream freezer does its Well it may. Meanwhile, they work with the aid of carbon dioxide It President's chief asset at the gas instead of (Son, freising
moment with his people ge contents in thres minubed when 4erally, is that as ons, write ats(handle" in turned.
while the country is
on the right tre even he is their
Boems to da
with his success.
activities, ranged from night-clubs him generous advances on account
in Montmartre to running banke of the sale of their confiscated at baccarat at Deauv Cannes, landa. and other resorta.
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