Cheap Joint

The uncrowned tsar of Monte Carlo, sleek, hard Casino Director Rene Leon, far more potent than fusty old Prince Louis of Monaco, was under withering fire last week from Monegasques who loudly demanded his scalp. On top of the wallop Depression gave Monte Carlo had come a second staggering blow, the decision of the French Government in 1933 to legalize roulette, hitherto a Monte monopoly, in France. Groggy from these two crushers, Director Leon faced last week the minute principality's irate National Assembly. Shouted a deputy who was promptly seconded by Mayor Louis Aureglia of Monte Carlo: "Leon's management has reduced the principality to the status of a cheap gambling joint! He has almost ruined us. Leon must go!" Actually cheapness has long been Monte Carlo's chief attraction for earnest German gamblers with complex systems, for withered English crones who sit day after day playing for fantastically low stakes in the musty roulette room contemptuously called "The Monkey House."

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