MONACO: Les Crops

On a breeze of Americana, "les craps" and "les girls" fluttered into the cream-colored Monte Carlo Casino one morning last week. Six bright, mascaraed beauties, "straight from the Wally Wanger Broadway shows" (the publicity handout said), bounced into a big, baroque Casino chamber, joined croupiers, cameramen and curiosity-seekers around the first crap table in the Casino's 71 years of existence. Blonde, white-suited Lillian Moore—"one of the 100 most beautiful girls in the world"—took the dice, shook them, blew on them, threw the inaugural roll (see cut). A ten.

"Is that good?" whispered a little, white-haired French woman. "Don't know a...

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