1938-06-21 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE, 21, 1938.

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BRIEFER BATHS WEAR

But Only Among Pools' Venuses And Adonises

Swimming pool undress fashions are still changing, and trunks taking the place of costumes-among men bathers.

With the women, however, costumes, although very abbreviated, are more popular than the trunks and brassieres.

tranks and brassieres.", a "Our experience with women's leading manufacturer told a reporter, "is that some young girls like them, but only if they have exceptionally siender and shapely figures. Those with figures not so good dare not look at them."

He was commenting on the opinion. advaried at the conference of berthes superintendents at Bou nemouth that trunks are gaining in favou

They are absolutely night as fa as non are concerned he surf 4ht with women, trunks and fir annaPLES are not nearly as popnuut as full com tumes

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"Perhaps there to a certain autumn of prejudice. Al my rate. nest are not keen on them. Esper lally if they art serious switamets. they prefer a well-onde costume to attractive bits and pitees

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"The year I think the only met who will dick to costumes will be! elderly, the very fat, and the exces

averty any monsters wher obviously to ned look at the thesd a trunks "Among when there has been

1274ntage f light wearers of trunks and brassietes, aut they ne s1 few perhaps one Twenty The general demand among

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"Five years ago I would have told women is for costumes CV 1969 you that practically all men wore (lanetful than those of last year

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Women Seldom Cheat, Says Ex-Managing Director

SYSTEM MAKERS ARE MAD

THE man who made the bank at Monte Carlo, the genius behind the casino's amazing post-war boom, is in London.

He is M. Rene Leon, the debonair French ex-banker who, during his 13 years as managing director of the company controlling the casino, rocketed its revenues up |to £2,100,000 a year.

Three years ago M. Leon resigned, with a load of money in his pocket and with a thousand condences-of kings, princes, and famous worden- In his heart.

"In ten years' time, yea, I may write my memoirs." M. Leon told n Daly Express reporter at Claridge's Hotel, "but now, I would not dare. Too many people are still alive."

LAW OF CHANCE

But M. Leon Ing other things to say about Monte Carlo--things be hog never said until now.

"Monte Carlo,

really all so

[ saka," M. Len sighed. "The con- alstent gambler canat win. It is the

Climbers Killed on

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Two famous mountains claim-i

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must lose,

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know of only one lifelong gambler who left the casino for good with a fortune hi his pocket. He was an Italian prince, who made | Wales, 23-year-old Mr. G. B.

On the 3,200ft, high Glyder! Fach, neur Bethesda, North

a million franes, then warth £13-France, of Hayveridge Avenue,

000.

"You see, fie died the same night Handley, near Wellington, Shrop-

shire, was killed,

in his sleep.

"I myself have never gumbled. have never backed a horse of bought

a sweepstake ticket.

Accompanied by Mr. S. E. Alleuch,

of Hawthorne Rond, Shrewsbury, he¦ intended scale the Glyder peak. "At roulette or trente-quarante the They had left their ears parkent on bank must win AL roulette the the roadside. When they were half-

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bank's chance is 32 per cent, better way up the Glyder. France slipped Shirt Blouses

then the players. At trente-quarante and fell headlong on to a projecting :

It is 2.1 per cent, better.

Those are the gures worked out by my expert statisticlans, whom I employed to study the mathematics of gambling.

BEAT THE BANK

rock 70ft below.

When Allcocit arvived on the scene:

is companion was dead.

A rescue party took three hours to bring the body to the yard of Ogwen Lake Collage,

SCAFELL VICTIM

**Their calculations proved that any man who thinks he has a 'system' to beat the bank must be mad,

The other accident was on Scafell, "The four legs of the rouletle tuble second highest peak in Englund, are mounted on heavy oll. The wheel When climbing Stand Crog, on the itself is puised on its axis with un-south face route, Mr. Dunbar Usher alterable precision by means of con-¦ (32), a member of Keswick (Cumber- trolled ball-bearings.

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"Every morning the table is of his friend, Mr. John Hayton, to tested with a spirit level to ensure reach a higher hold, that its horizontality has not been! He slipped and fell 80TL to a rocky disturbed even in the smallest de-ledge, Hayton descended to the ledge

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"Here is, perhaps, the most pathetic story Monte Carlo can tell.

A schoolmaster in a French vil-

lage bought a small roulette wheel and studled it all one winter. He be lieved he had found system. He Look it to other people in the village gave demonstrations. The numbers he said would win came up.

"So he raised a fund. Some gave 100 francs, some twenty, until that summer he came down to the casino with 15,000 francs.

"He took his seat at the table. In half an hour he had lost everything. "I was watching him. It was so sad to see the stupefaction on his face. He could not understand what had gone wrong. He asked us for a little money to go back to hla village. We were kind.

Other people try to beat the bank, by other means. Crooks who gather round the tables have been one of M. Leon's specini studies.

"The cleverest swindler I have ever crossed swords with," said M. Leon, "operated at the baccarat table when the open bank game was being play- cd.

He was a tall, distinguished-look- ing mun with greying hair, and dark tinted spectacles.

with deep head wound. He died while Hayton went for help.

One of Cumberland's most experi- enced rock climbers, Usher had spent mountaineering holidays in Switzer-

land.

Miss Eva Bally (27), another ex-

perienced climber, was killed Scufell on May 1.

Confession Extracted By Police "Priest"

New York. LERGY of Beattle, Washing-

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They quote the specifle case ol seventy-two-year-old Mary Elennor) "He butbid other players for the Smith, who confessed to the murder

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"""There have been other

clever methods of cheating. One trick re- quired two small pieces of modelling cly concealed in the palm of the band.

"The crook would stake, say, twenty francs on the roulette table with à 100-frane chip stuck in his hand.

"If he won he would thump his hand over his stake and call out. That's mine. When the croupier went to pay him he discovered the 190 francs there. The twenty franes had been spirited away by means of the other plece of clay.

"Women are not very clever t cheating. It is generally very petty." Та M. Leon the casino has been a stage where character, stonds exposed. "Under the stress of the game, no person can hide his real self from the practised observer," he said.

"Sometimes I have wondered the players were men or beasts."

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Herr Himmler, the German chief off police, warned the public of the stern mensures in force for the prevention of forest fires.

Mrs. Smith said she thought Me- Cauley was a priest, but that she had no regrets regarding the confession.

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