Word: faked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the disclosures of 1928 Alceo Dossena has attempted to confine himself to his own personality, but his modern sculpture seems strangely ineffective. With each of the antique Dossenas on sale last week will go an official document of the Italian Government attesting that it is a genuine fake...
...Chaoyang had fallen, correspondents were summoned to the former Imperial Manchu Summer Palace at Chengteh, found Two-Gun Tang seated on a 200-year-old Ceremonial Throne. "The Japanese can have this province," cried Tang passionately, "when all the Chinese are dead! . . . Manchukuo is nothing but a big fake. No Chinese yet has voluntarily joined the Japanese. Even Pu Yi [in his childhood the last Emperor of China, today Regent of Manchukuo] would get out of his present job if he could...
...championship bout against Jack Sharkey; by a knockout in the 13th round; in Manhattan. Schaaf, hospitalized immediately after the fight, recovered consciousness after 1 hr. and 45 min., developed an intracranial hemorrhage. Sports-reporters, incorrigibly skeptical about all Camera's doings, first described the knockout as a fake, hastily acknowledged its authenticity three days later when doctors operated to remove a blood clot from Schaaf's brain. Schaaf, 24, never rallied, died early next morning...
...willing spinster, Ann always wanted to get married but could not find the right man, began to think she never would. In a weak moment she married a likable fellow-charitarian, quickly discovered that he was a windy fake. But she tried to keep things patched up till one evening she met the Right Man: Judge Barney Dolphin, able but not too scrupulous Manhattan jurist, with a Broadway reputation and a wife of his own. They fell in love immediately, and Ann let nothing make any difference. She bore Barney's child, divorced her husband, stood...
...which always accompanies his stinging satires. To achieve the full realization of this quality on the stage without seriously sacrificing an appearance of reality, especial credit is due to R. D. Merion for his absolutely superb acting in bringing out the full possibilities of the character of Sganarells, the fake doctor. Even the most sedate Cambridge matrons were set to laughing by his extremely amusing actions and his well calculated speech. As Martine, the querulous and revengeful wife of Sganarelle, Miss Mary Loring gave an almost equally good rendition of her part. Also worthy of particular praise were...