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Show DEMJWLLE HAS BIG GAMBLING SEASON French Summer Resort Was Scene of Wildest, Most Reckless Reck-less Orgy of Gold Squandering Squan-dering in History in SEWTOX PARKE. International News Service staff Cor- r spondont. ! PARIS. The season Just closing .it Deauvllle. the world's greatest money-spending money-spending summer resort, has seen the wildest, most reckless game of gold squandering In the history of the guy little town by the sea. 'No wonder they pronounce it 'Dough-Ville. " Mortimer Schlff is credited with saying, as he watched the croupiers pulling In great flocks of thousand franc notes at the Casino Ca-sino On the banner day of the season tne day of the Oiand i'nx more than $110,000 passed over the baccarat tables ta-bles alone, and the croupiers and money changers received more than $20,000 in tips. No figures were available avail-able for the rooms where 'ia botilo ' and other games of chance were played, hut It Is estimated that for the entiie season only a little l ss than $10,000,000 was played. Thousands of Americans nnd Enc-tishmen Enc-tishmen left their tributes at the Casino Ca-sino tables, but this year French multimillionaires mul-timillionaires were some of the heaviest heavi-est players Mr. Vagllane. a French shipbuilder. Is credited with winning o' er 5200.000, and James Hennesy, the French cognac king and racehorse owner Is said to have come away about . lr.n.r ahe.ul of the game An unknown Sjlrlan and a qUalnt old Englishwoman, who always wore a hamlkerehlcf around her left wilst for luck, were also big winners: There was little publicity for the losers Sachs Gultry. well known on J the French stage, wai said to have lost steadily at 'ia bouic' and an English major who arrived with his; fortune to play at baccarat went home j penniless. The Casino authorities quickly hushed up a story that one i man who had lost all his hre-time s.iv-I ings had committed suicide by denying that he had ever played at the tables and attributing his dea;h to a fit of t me inc holy. "The trouble about DeiUVllle." says Les Copeland. former W v York song writer "is that they lake all your I money and send you off wi'h an trap tv Btomtich. Did you ever see New, York gambling joint without a stack of free sandwiches right near the door where vou go out?" |