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MONDAY, FEBRUARY

12 1994

MONTE CARLO GIVES A LEAD

REAL GOLD TO FLOW

IN THE CASINOS

LUXURIES NEVER MORE LAVISH

(By G. Ward Price.)

Monte Carlo.

Gold pieces jingling on

Imany millions of

france and green charges of dynamite, modified their craggy coastline so as to

Evidently prosperity for British cloth; polo is still round, the corner.

Piles of gleaming coins fresh provide beaches and bathing-pools To-day there is only one 10-handi- from the Paris Mint;

jand tiers of tennis courts. They world-the cap player in the

Winnings of real heavy ringing had long, before laid out a golf American, Tommy Hitch-cock. He yellow metal, instead of dead bone course half-way up the mountain started the game at the age of 10 disca only exchangeable for flimsy side. But such concessions to and has been the best player in paper;

modern taste are only minor ad- Americs for 10 years. This con-

-Who will not say the slump is juncts of the gaming-tables, which tinued pre-eminence in as fast and over when they see such signs as have won for this litle rocky shelf exhausting a game as polo can have these?

at the foot of the Maritimo Alpe Monte Carlo is going back on the its classic and unchallengeable

fame. gold basis.

There are to be roulette tables Mr. Anthony Armstrong, author where gains will be paid in solid of Ten Minute Alibi" the thriller gold, with coins worth: that has been banned in Germany, states that the play has already been performed in that country.

no parallel in any other sport.

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Wars have convulsed Europe; social conditions have changed: slumps have come sweeping over the world, yet never for a single day does the Casino stop working for that margin of 3.2 per cent. in

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Monte Carlo has remembered It was played by The English that it is the domain of an Inde- Players, a stock company, which has pendent Sovereign, who is entitled toured Europe for several years.

Your Daily Smile.

chances gives it at roulette, and the 1.6 per cent, that is its slender advantage against the outside world at trente et quarante.

Vast Overhead Expenses What the administration of the to have a gold coinage of his own. "Society of Sea-Baths" does not His Serene Highness the Prince know about these two games no cacophony hints at some struc-

For two of Monaco is accordingly about to one else will ever know. !tural connection between the

create a

special gold currency. generations the eccentricities of universe and the atom. Science

TIMES CHANGE

bearing his image and superscrip- chance have been under investiga- awaits the synthesizing genius! "In olden times," remarks ation, and struck at the French Gov-tion here from every conceivable Each individual number Hong Kong. Monday, Feb. 12, 1934. who can relate invisible spinning writer. "a young girl rebuked aernment Mint, for the special bene-angle.

electrons to visible spinning man

to of all the millions that hava turn- by exclaiming 'Go to!'" fit of the visitors who come stars, the emptiness of the atom Nowadays, of course, she says "Go risk their money on his territory, ed up since Monte Carlo hegan has Thus the principal institution of been recorded. There is no sys- This realm, which modestly calls it-tem or device ever brought to bear. self the "Society of Sea-Baths," by punters on these green tables "Where have you been for the will be able to pay those who win but the Casino experts are aware. money from it in genuine royal of it and have already investigated gold pleces that any bank in the its possibilities. world would be glad to get into its coffers.

The Year In Physics.

the

is

to the emptiness of space, the io. glare of a billion blazing suns to

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Too Often

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"Oh, I moved." "Moved ?"

the gamma rays of the radio- It is not the conclusion but active elements. Not only will mathematical method that he take his place beside Aristotle,| new in the theory propounded by Newton and Einstein, but he will past week?" Professor J. R. Oppenheimer to outshine even these synthesizers explain the

transformation of who saw unity where lesser intangible radiation into tangible minds saw only chaos. matter. Both British and Amer- ican experimenters have seen light converted into positrons] and electrons; which are thei bricks out of which matter is built. "No experiment is worthy

A French Theory Of

Bars.

M. Lucien

Farnoux-Reynaud

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"Yes. Landlady asked too much for the rent."

"How much did you Day?"

have to

Thirty shillings a weck."* "And how much is the place?"

"Two pounds a week,"

As one watches the long, slender rakes of the croupiers scooping in It will not be all the time nor the losers' chips it looks as if the at every table that the flow of the banker at roulette or trente et Twenty quarante earned large and easy magic metal will occur. years have passed since the profits. "That is what has led the new roulette player tasted this rich chief resorts in France to extract diet, and he will not at first be from their Government the right to re-run these games, hitherto forbid- tempted with a surfeit. To of acceptance until it is support- tells the readers of Figaro that the "But I thought you said your old store the gold standard at even ajden on French territory,

The experience of Monte Carlo, ed by a good theory," said the Americans are "shaking a leg" landlady asked too much for the couple of tables will make it neces-

sary for the Casino to keep twenty however, is that, even with the paradoxical Eddington at the over the fall of prohibition. How rent."

"She did-four or five times a million francs-or a quarter of a banker's odds upon one's side, it last meeting of the British Asso-did it happen that the instinct to

million pounds-ready to meet ais nuky business trying to make ciation, thereby reverting to forbid and persecute was long so day."

to which so Aristotelian

The strong in a country

prolonged run of luck against the money out of gambling unless you principles.

fled in its earlier

bank. If it proves impossible to work hard at it. Only by keep- positron, had been predicted by many persons

of roulette An optimist is a chap who sits have the special coins made, before ing a large number young Professor Dirac of Cam-days to escape persecution? How

Is it that of a Lost Paradise they in the gallery at the pantomime the end of the winter season that tables open for the maximum pos bridge two years ago with the

remember only the angel with the and winks at a choras girl. is just beginning, gold American aible number of hours each day. aid of an ingenious calculus of faming sword 2. Prohibition lives

"Eagles" (10 dollars at par) may can the Casino be sure of the be used instead.

mathematical prost due to it.

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Facts You Did Not Know.

It is natural that Monte Carlo

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NEW AIRPORT FOR LONDON

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his own invention and radiation after it is dead. You must sit Worst Joke in the Page theoretically connected with the down to get a drink. The English Banknotes are said to have been mechanics of the atom. It was and American bars are imported used in Chins nearly 5,000 years should lead the world in raising a sort of mathematical poetry institutions in Paris. One would ago. Thus throwing all other again the almost forgotten image that he gave

As in all suppose that a Frenchman would financial theories into Confucian, of the Golden Calf, for nowhore poetry, the argument progressed favour the sendentary over the per-

else is that fascinating idol not in small steps readily follow-pendicular style. The English bar Every Husband's Problem

frankly and fiercely worshipped. Keeping his wife in cheque. The sole aim and purpose of this | THE KWONG KWUI CO LTD.ed, but in bold imaginative leaps. Is comfortable. To the American, or Apparently Professor Oppen- many Americans, "a bar remains

place is making easy money. Cupi the parvenu brother of the saloon."

PROTECTION heimer has introduced

dity is here a social virtue. Cun- The Cloth Workers' Company ventional hypocrisies are all aban- rigour into the reasoning-shown Compare the French with the

People who at home more clearly the why, and the engish and American manser of has sent a donation to the Anti-on

consulting the oracle of the bottle: Noise League. A juvenile cor gravely describe their Stock Ex wherefore. Last year was

"People talk In the cafe. They respondent says that if they made change flutters as: "investments" memorable one in the advance of

mutter or whisper in the bar. In the cloth of boys' trousers thicker openly allude to their main oc- physics. The discovery of the

the cafe they write their letters, there would be less noise. positron in 1932. by Dr. Anderson dispatch their business, muse

cupation at Monte Carlo un “gamb-

The opening of the Airports, was verified at Cambridge;

ling." about politics. In the bar they A HUSBAND'S LIFE

Conference was followed hard by energy was converted into mass think of themselves, then of their One un-darned thing after an-

the news that London is to have In accordance with Dirac's pre- friends and their loves. In the other.

Nature herself helps to fix one's a new airport, a rival to Croy- |[diction; deutons, which are the

mind.on Monte Carlo's function, don.." nuclei of heavy hydrogen atoms, cafe the fallures get together and form groups. The misunderstood. were hurled at targets with the take refuge in the bar. In a word,

The very mountains gather round Gatwick aerodrome, lying be Irelease of tremendous energy as

us If to shut off the world outside side the London-Brighton electric from sight. The streets all slope railway line, has been taken over well as of protons; experiments the cafe has its discussions, the made with the new heavy water bar ita poetry of disappointment

towards the Casino entrance. Try by a syndicate headed by Mr. A. the Temple of C. M. Jackaman, and is to he formed by double-weight hydro-and delusion. Coming back to gen aroused wonder as to the wine and alcohol, the Americans countries are admitted to German to escape from

Mammon by taking a walk, or turned into a high-speed ́aero- kind of world this would have suppress this poetry, which, doubt museums they are subjected to

climb, among the am- drone to serve London in all been had nature decided, to less, only the French and the Eng. quarantine and gas treatment to create occans of a different lish have perceived. The theory ill disease, germs and insect life. phitheatre of stone and stucco weathers.

|buildings that confront it on the Speed is being ensured by pro- physical constitution than she is ingenious, though, if its pro-

Although 46 plants. producing landward side, and you, and the viding a landing surface with a did; and the cosmic rays were pounder were familiar with the

American barrsom, he might have 870,000 horsepower are in opera; very earth beneath your feet con- clear run in any direction of half [definitely linked with positrons to somit its competence for all the fion loss than 20 per cent of the spiring to decant you back at]s mile, for use by fast acro

functions he ascribes to the cafe water power resources of the Ten- these doors where, day and night planes. Planck, Dirac and Oppenheimer whose name it often took. As for nessee river basin has been throughout the year, people past Passengers will be brought in- in to measure their luck against to town by the electric, trains In are doing their best to weave a discussion of all things under the harnessed.

the spin of a wheel or the turn of 36 minutes. Although Gatwick fabric in which stars and atoms aun, it was their very temple. If

Main farther from London than A French railway is experiment- a card, will find their places in a recog.the memories of oldsters may be nizable pattern. They have given trusted, it was also a sanctuary of ing with models of an express train Monte Carlo's reputation as the Croydon, the time taken by road us the score of a cosmic sym-song. Is drink on a table prose, that is intended to drop cars filled metropolis of games of chance is from Croydon is usually longer. phony, but no instruments upon on the bar poetry? M. Lucien with passagers and pick up others due to this singleness of aim. The Gatwick aerodrome is to There is no other place at all com be equipped with beam wireless which we can play it. What Farnoux-Reynand gives no reason without stopping at stations.

parable in its appeal to people who systema so that, machines will be those strange dissonances mean for the distinction he makes. Dões d

The unusual brilliance of mossies want to gamble seriously.

able to find it and land in all is not yet clear, even to the his unconscious, syllogism run or mathematical composers, Now totter thus: Poetry stands on the sovering the dome of a building. Yet it does not rely on this weathers. Another point which and then the mind's car hears a own fest. The man in front of erected in Mexico City in 1588 has alone. It has moved with

uted by a German times. When the Riviera, strain In which the music has the bar stands on his own feet, been attr the significance of an overpower. Therefore he la poetry. If this scientist to the fact that rubber after the war, suddenly ingrevelation. Then discord seems lame lameness-is natural in was used in the colouring, matter popular as summer

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