The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-07
Veteran SluehS
Watch Gamblers
At Monte Carlo
Casino Spies Endowed With
I Memories That Never
Forget Faces

Andree vlollis In tho Continental Edition
Of the London Mail.
The first time you go to the casino
at Monte Carlo, various scribes
posted behind a counter in a small
room near the entrance ask for
your papers OF identity and nll up
form, This proceeding is harm
less enough, but--walt!
Two or three individuals are walk
ing up and down there nonchalantly,
their hands behind their backs
one of them makes some idle remark
TO you, some innocent Joke; you turn
round and receive fun in your face
the concentrated glare OF two or
three stares. Ping Like that, and
tho picture is taken.
II you should not reappear at
Monte Carlo again for ten years you
would be recognized and identified
These officials, who are known as
"the physiognomsts," have the gift
of never forgetting n face once seen.
They are said to receive large sal
aries.
A friend Of mine who, six months
before, had spent but an hour in the
casino, explained at the barrier that
he had forgotten to bring his card
and his passport with him.
You are Monsieur y, are you
not?" said one of These walking card
indexes, and you live in the Rue u
at Nantes. | recognize you. ."
l go into the sanctuary. Behind
the tables stand tail lackeys In blue
uniforms embroidered with silver.
ready TO make friendly answer TO
any demand for information.
But do not trust appearances
These splendid puppets, with the
bulging white calves, are not meant
| only for decoration; these CLASSY
, eyes can see, these mouths, with the
| fixed smile can talk. Each attendant
| keeps under his personal surveil
! lance ono or two OF the old habitue'
| of the roms.
! Between the tables move quie'
| men. dressed in black, with an ali
which is both nonchalant and acute
! Others, men and women. dressed
! like you or ne mingle with thu
| groups of players.
Take up your position In front o
the croupier. Keep your gaze OF
the "automaton," and from time I,
time you will observe IN this woodel
face an all but imperceptible move
| ment of tho eye in the direction o
some player. who, perhaps, is lean
ing too far forward on tho table
who ~snatches too promptly at tn,
counters he has won, or at a fac
which Is too pale, too ravaged o
distorted by some nervous trick o
other.
Behind you. be sure OF II, some
one has noted this movement of tn
eye. The invisible surveillance
concentrating, Is drawing in, upo
the spot.
l. As. 4.
turmoil OF the swarms which gathe
and disperse again, one does nc
catch a brief dialogue in under
tones or note the swift exit of tw
persons which mark the. removal G
a broken gambler or a delinquen
Behind the scenes at Monte Carl
permanent court, with Judge
witnesses. and advocates, is in ses
sion. The kindly president will ad
wise the despairing gambler to leav
Monte Carlo and return home: wi
add, maybe, some philosophical re
Elections upon the instability of fol
. tune. its Inconsistency, and Il
fashion of coming back.
, Still bstter, If the prisoner at III
? bar is absolutely at the end OF h
resources, money 10 pay his hot
! bill and his ticket home will he aC
. vanced to him; but he cannot r,
turn to the casino until he has di
charged his debt to the authoritie
, He will be carefully "scen" 10 IL
; train, and even beyond in order
7 avoid an accident.
a As for the delinquent, he will
! punished more or less severely, bl
!, always with the same penalty, e'
pulsion from the rooms-foreve
, forever, for ten years, for five, Il
:. | one
, No fuss, no scandal But again
. these silent verdicts there Is no al
peal. And for those possessed vii
fba darpou ~ Dlav thoV are terri bl