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The Point of No Retreat

... ket as an artist's prop. Houdini is presented as firmly disclaiming any super natural element in his tricks, and as exposing a fake spiritualist medium. But the film preserves its right to mystery. It is to the credit of producer George Pal and of young ...

Published: Wednesday 30 December 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 604 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Thing Of Beauty: An Immoral Trifle

... the Valeno Vicentino crystal cup, and had not an American collector paid 4,000 dollars for it, and was it not later exposed as a fake? And was there not the famous mustard pot of Dijon, excavated as a small amphora, used, so the experts solemnly declared ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4223 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By

... chicks, we seem to get right down to bedrock. Why economists evade such a simple, clear expose, we gather, is that they think the memsahibs may be listening. Fake-delicacy is of course their strong suit. For example, in Bagehot's wellknown banking treatise ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1080 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

Little Girls, Jam and Pigtails

... her and he pushed her and hoisted her gown and kept up a running com mentary on her appearance for five minutes before he exposed a single plate. And by that time she hadn't an ounce of fight left in her and was looking utterly adorable. Then Mother, who ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1457 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

A MEDICI ROMANCE: The Elopement with a Venetian Bank Clerk which ended in Marriage with a Grand Duke

... to win him over with gifts. When she heard that he had nosed out evidence of the supposed fraudulent birth and was about to expose it, she sprang into action. First, her secret marriage must be publicly solemnised with due ceremony, thus regulating her ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1593 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations