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...Robinson, Thomas Mitchell, and C. Aubrey Smith. The brief scene in which the latter extolls the beauty of death while Robinson decides to murder him is a delightful mixture of the macabre and the amusing. But even Robinson, as a man compelled to realize the prophecy of a palmist who sees murder in his hand, gets tiresome in interminable chats with his inner self. And finally, the heavy hand descends again in a lurid and protracted climax...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: Flesh and Fantasy | 5/14/1953 | See Source »

...London, newshounds began to bay after 18-year-old Princess Margaret, who got home after midnight four nights last week after partying with the Marquess ("Sonny") of Blandford and other titled young bloods. After she listened to a palmist foretelling romance for Sonny, the Princess refused to have her fortune told, protesting: "Oh no, no. You're much too accurate." The tabloid Sunday Pictorial decided to be sternly parental about the whole thing: "Mothers who find it hard to regulate the hours of their daughters do not like to be told that 'Princess Margaret's parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Brimming Cup | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...candidate was thoroughly enjoying Mexico's presidential election campaign last week. He was a squat, rumpled gum-chewing artist, palmist and poet named Pedro Rend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: People's Candidate | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...London palmist (Thomas Mitchell) reads a lawyer's palm, informs him that he is about to commit a murder. The lawyer (Edward G. Robinson), plays into the hands of fate (with a murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

Died. Count Louis Hamori ("Cheiro"), 69, celebrated oldtime palmist; after long illness; in Hollywood. Author of a book on palmistry at 13, he amassed $250,000 from rich female clients, owned an English-language newspaper in Paris, The American Register. On the night he died, said his nurse, the clock outside his room struck the hour of one thrice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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