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BON MOT-IFS

... and is called The Mexico. In that part of the world they are accus tomed to revolutions. A contemporary states that Jack the Ripper was employed in a laundry. Judging by our shirts, many of his descendants must be in the same employment. From a report ...

Published: Wednesday 29 February 1928
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 483 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By ...: One Thing and Another

... Killer IN the Evening News recently Sir Max Pemberton propounded a fascinating clue new to us, for one to the enigma of Jack the Ripper, in which you needn't pretend you aren't interested. (We can see your ears going up from here.) Namely there was Black ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1814 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

Priscilla in Paris

... (Baron Henri de Rothschild), at the Ambassadeurs and when, I wonder, shall we have a nice, pleasant little play about Jack the Ripper Malakof, at the Renaissance; La Famille Thingmajig, a new and particularly salacious farce, at the Palais Royal Viktor ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1933
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 911 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Passing Shows: Mr. Vachell's New Play

... which hides so much, and was taken by his landlady for a murderer escaping from justice. She looked upon him, in fact, as Jack the Ripper, and it may be said she loved him for his money. Unfortunately, in the same house there also lived a charming girl moneyless ...

Published: Wednesday 22 December 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1137 | Page: 12 | Tags: Illustrations 

ENTERTAINMENTS à la CARTE

... is hardly a celebrated case but has inspired, consciously or unconsciously, a play or novel about a murderer. Crippen, Jack the Ripper, Madeleine Smith, Bathtub Smith, Landru, Seddon, Constance Kent, Rouse, Patrick Mahon, Leopold and Loeb, Thompson and ...

Published: Wednesday 05 May 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1142 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

MEN and EVENTS: This Queer World of Ours

... experience. There is very likely a good deal in it How many countless times have the stories of Burke and Hare, Neil Cream, Jack the Ripper, Casanova, and Cagliostro been told during the past ten years The trouble with most writers who appeal to this thirst ...

MEN and EVENTS: Lord Carson's Biography

... wife after another. A certain amount of circumstantial evidence exists to indicate that he may have been the mysterious Jack the Ripper. There was a long rivalry between Carson and Rufus Isaacs (now Lord Reading) and in almost every case of celebrity they ...

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... who may turn out to be the successor to Jack the Ripper, he who so terrified and beglamoured our parents in the nutty 'nineties. Sid, however, is obviously just an amateur slasher ripe for the loony-bin, whereas Jack, who was never caught, ripped scientifically ...

Published: Wednesday 14 December 1938
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1770 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... round howling at full moon and scare the pants off the aborigines than to be a Jack the Ripper, whose favourite sport seems to us un-English. Though Heaven knows the Ripper was only expressing himself, conformably with the smartest modern educational ideal ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1502 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... noticed, to murder as well as to sport, diplomacy, religion, govern ment, and the Arts. Had Dr. Crippen been an expert like Jack the Ripper, using the knife with professional skill and getting away with it, he would never have been the national idol he became ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1756 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By . . .: One Thing and Another

... Waltzertraum, Rover, etc., are admittedly pseudonymous), the Etruscan use of the Pluperfect Subjunctive, the fate of Jack the Ripper, the authorship of the Letters of Junius, the exact size of La Garbo's feet, the breaking-point of Godfrey Winn's heart ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1838 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By: A Weekly Commentary on One Thing and Another

... Moiseivitch, Moses Maimonides, Mayor Walker, Johnnie Walker, Tom Bowling, Tom Webster, Clytemnestra, Norman the Butcher, Jack the Ripper, Ysolde of the White Hands, Quaglino, Deidre of the Sorrows, Jumbo Jolliffe, and the Man in the Iron Mask. Okay Bright ...

Published: Wednesday 15 April 1936
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2145 | Page: 19 | Tags: Illustrations