Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-21

hoff reputed to be the richest man
in Europe and popularity credited
with being the largest stocllholder
4 in the Monte Carlo Casino, must be
i bow to the regulations of the monaco
principality in the drafting of which
he was greatly instrumental and
cannot remove the body of his wife.
4 who died in February, for final
burial at his Chateau at Belincourt,
France, until the middle of next
month.
The ordinance provides that body
shall not be removed from the prin-
cipality until six weeks after death.
1t was promulgated with the object
of putting an end to sensational
stories about the bodies of gamblers
who had committed suicide being
struggled out of Monaco. One of the
first to come under it's application
is the Mystery Man of Europe"
The suggestion that Suzanne should
be decorated with the red ribbon of
the legion of honor has stirred up
the humorists, a class in France
which apparently has no interest in
or understanding of sports. Let the
red ribbon be long enough for the
champion to tie her hair with on gala
days, wrote one, and a cartoonist
showed a tennis racquet being de-
livered to the premier, having been
+ sent by the champion to be placed
in the museum of the army along
side the bugle on which cease fir
4 ing was sounded at armistice.
One paper printed long satirical
interview with Mile. Denglen, making
fun of her collapse after her recent
victory over Helen Wills at Cannes.
Brand Whitlock, former American
ambassador to Belgium, and the Rev,
Shahan, rector of the Catholic uni
Sversity at Washington, have agreed
to serve on the international com
mittee now being constituted to pub
lish an account of the life and char
acters Of the late Cardinal MERCER
i The old joke about the American
ambassador being taken for a head
waiter at a court function because
of the contrast of MS plain evening
clothes, with the brilliant uniforms
about him, has been perpetrated
again, but with French minister as
the victim.
Georges Chauvin, who was under
secretary of state for the liberated
regions in the eighth BRAND cabinet.
went to Elysee palace recently in
evening clothes which are said to
date from his student days. once in
the French white House, he took a
standing pose by the buffet, where
the incident happened.
"Nraitre D'Hotel," queried much
diamonded lady of high Paris So
ciety would you mind fetching me
a glass of champagne?"
NJ BRAND, M. Chauvin's chief, him
self no Beau Bruinnnel, was the first
to laugh at his subordinate's misad-
anture.
The French courts have upheld the
rights of the designed of ballet as
being just as valid as an author
over his book or dramatist over his
play.
! The question arose through an acc
ton brought by mistress of ballet,
Mime Chasles of the state conserva-
! tory who has produced ballets at the
opera and the opera comique. She
had asked to give a ballet at an en-
tertainment, and she arranged the
| Ballet of the Three Sultanas," with
Mime. olga Soutzo as premiere dan
seuse. She was. greatly surprised she
said, when Mile. Soutzo changed the
dance entirely from what had been
rehearsed and she brought an action
| for 10000 francs damages as the
f, ballet had been announced in the
program as arranged by her.
Mile. Soutzo pleaded that a first
dancer in a ballet had the right to
interpret dance as it appealed to
her and was not obliged to keep to
| the exact steps laid down by the
ballet mistress. She Offered to re-
produce on a table in court the dance
as she gave it and as the ballet mis-
tress had directed, but the court
ruled that that was not necessary.
The judgment handed down recog-
nized the rights of ballet mistress
and author in principle by awarding
her one franc damages.
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