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London Express Service
THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES, No. 14
THE MASTER FORGER
H
HAD HIS REVENGE
By JACK RAMSAY
AN VAN MEEGEREN WOB ล Dutchman with a grudge and a He carried out flair for revenge. the greatest hoax in the history of art and died in prison after proving his own guilt.
If, at first, no one would believe him, the reason was simple: he claimed to have painted pictures which everyone else thought were the works of Jan Vermeer' of the Delft and Pieter de Hooch, the great Flemish masters of the 17th cen- tury. Van Meegeren, after all, was merely a third-rate artist, it was declared.
VAN MEEGEREN-GENIUS OR FAKE? In the background, the picture he painted in ̄ 1945 under supervision of the Dutch authorities,
of
on
was
restuous medium
ail the takes, and this, with other technical discrepancies sufficient to establish that none of these works was by Vermeer, who lived and worked in the 17th century.
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
FTER the Children's The following lotter has been Neivapaper comes the received in reply to a telegram Animals' Newspaper
sont by the Editor to Aurora, edited by guess who? You're from Chicago, who was held up the three-year-old polar boar right first time. N. Gub for two days in London docks bins, Esq.
owing to Import restrictions As many may remember, while on her way to Man- Gubbins has always num-
chester: bered animals among hio constant readers. He has published letters from horses, cows, lions, tigers, and elephants.
He was the first to print a rat's startling point of view about being the first to leave
sinking ship
A
Birds have also written 10 him. There was the and leffor from a turkey doomed to Deven
shopping days before
Christmas.
dle
And insects such Да waspa und bluebottles have crawled
carefully along cach line of his beautiful prose and sent him congratulations and vealing comments on the affairs of the day.
to
A
Unlike a girl now writing for one of the Sunday newspapers, Gubbins has been able to talk animals without blowing down their nostrils. For many years he has been talking to cale and feels that if he had blown down their nostrila, par- ticularly after a visit to low tavern, they would
have refused to speak to him again. Therefore Gubbins, with his original, forward thinking mind always ahead of his contcm- ond โป unusual knowledge of
of the hopes, fears,
the
animais, is the
natural pioneer of a publication never seen in the world before.
The Animals Newspaper will be written far and by cnimals. There will be a correspondenco column open to beasts, birds, and insects of all shapes Bizes.
and
There will be political
Dear Sir,
As ano who has heard so much about the COUTICOUR welcome afforded to Ameri- can visitors, particularly film stare, to Britain, ust ady
Home
wag surprised and hurt at my reception by the London reporters. I thought at eas that my sex would have spared THIC
of the not Jumillations 1`suffernd, only at the docks but during the voyage, and the unwel- come publicly that followed.
No girl, for instance, toanfa the world to know that she has been fed on chlorophyll- treated dog food to keep the breath sweet, or that she and her quarters had to be hosted down once a day for the com- fort of the other passengers.
Nor dora the being labelled deliver at once." Hands Off." от
having weight (60016.) published. Even though it referred to water, the notice "Keep Her Filled Up" was ilable to misinterpretation.
Danger,
hor
I am not a fim star, buy how would Jane Russell, like it if the reporters sald the had to be hoped down once a day,
or they put a notice outside her caðin, "Danger. Hands Of." or "Keep Her Filled Up
Best wishes for your won- derful new enterprize giving the animals' points of view, It's time
we had
one in. America.
Sincerely,
AURORA.
articles by reactionary tiger Albert Speaks
and sheep that always support Day party that happens to be In power. In animal circles there is talk of an Animals' Party formed
als
to further the ALBERT, the robot columnist mentionot here last week, interests of animals. Before the crrived at The Sea Nest in a next General Election they hope
to make party political rate, was unpacked, wound up and seated oppoaite me at the Other opinions maintain this broadcasts and appear on telc desk to begin his first day's
vialon to be a limited conclusion which
Among special features account does not take into aesthetic considerations. No one be "The Pig's Point of View
with half an eye in his head could possibly attribute two beautiful paintings to any { S
work.
will While I read news out of the popor Albert was supposed to
A Pics for Cleaner Sties,” "Know Your Boso-It's the
make witty observations. - .Tho
before mo is a photo-
those small That Tells," a humiliat. Jer, Clalogue took place!
one but the Master of Delft. In ing article about men by n
y ease they are certainly not dog, and a keep fit series call- of King Saud of Arabia by the same hand that painted cd "Wet Noses for Health" by saluting a military parade com- a number of animals including caption says he has 150 cons. posed entirely of his sons. The the other take "Vermeers.”
well-known cat who gives advice on how to be sure
Any comment?
your vitamin intake by telligently timed pilfering, and the best kinds of furniture for
False Trail
of
In gond
He ought to be salating his wife,
you
But Goering during the war pald £165,000 for one of those Vermeers, and for this van Meegeren was accused in 1945 of collaborating with the Nuzis. It was in order to clear himself that he con-
NHAT 18th century resins were claw sharpening and for keep You may improve when
Not bid for a start, Albert, fessed to the forgeries. Collaborator?
found on all the fakes was ing paw museles
you On the contrary, he had really fooled the
get the idea of column writing. merely another example of the condition. Germans by selling them a forged "old
Ingenuity of van Meegeren, who News about prominent así- But in Arabia, 19
may master."
was certainly much cleverer mals will be covered by a know, a man may have several than the people he fooled. He brillant team of animal re- wives. What would happen If a For his disbelievers he accepted as genuine on the ments and confusion
the foresaw the inberatery tests and porters visiting the zoos, firm man could have several wives volunteered to paint, under highest authorliy
experts In that Amsterdam laid a talpa trail by retouching yards and jungles of the world. in a Welfare State. He would confound his critics, court-room guard, another "Vermeer,”
still re-echo. Did the genuine Vermeers with
4 nosey female
Ho'd have a wonderful time, be great
Poodabout, in spite of them, great van Mergeren really paint that modern paints and medium. In poodle, will "Jesus Among the Doctors," oven as Vermeer. But he would arst
provide intriguing
I am trying to keep splendid "Disciples at which case the Bredius guaran- gossip about smart, rich boasts column clean, Albert, but he refused to finish and be different from other forgers Emmaus
and "The Last tee of authenticity was fully in London, Paris and New of Supper" of three years later? age this work on learning who merely mado coples
York, Justified.
And
What's cleaner than for junior animats existing works. Ha would
riage? create original Vermeers.
All the other forgeries includ-
there will be a strip serial So it goes on ing the one painted in prison,
The revenge is still working, featuring the adventures of e It was the twisted, pathetic have little artistic merit. Tant is from beyond the grave.
dog, Reckless space aim of a vain, frustrated man --
Rover, about the only point on which There is only this final point, First Doggie on the Moon. but one clever enough to call the experts agree. These works which seems to have little to do Order your copy in advance, mate his "prey" to a a and capable
nicety,
of superficial 'likene:ses to those
when ments. Thosa "Vermeers" to a finish.
other two paintings which were thought to be genuine were
that the charge of collaborn Lion had been substituted for that of forgery.
own his revenge throu of carrying. Cained credence solely because with selentific or aesthetic argu~ 1 animals:
He had made the mis- tako of also selling "Vermeer" to his government.
file
Preparations were undoubtedly by the head of a worth thousands: those same From A Bear
17th
་
Moegeren's that
One body of scientific opinion finds, the laboratory tests com- clusive, and eays yes. They dis covered modern (19th century)
In the months that fol- thorough To obtain old canvas master.
he purchased h-century lowed his confession a fan-
paintings of little
value and Was van tastic tale unfolded in rubbed them down with pumice master hand? which lofty reputations were stone and water. He ground hi
own colours from old discredited and the public and found a synthetic medium recipes, learned a little of the which when heated
at high blarney that
sometimes temperature, gave the paint the passes for aesthetics among bord gloss quality of age. the elect.
Popular Man
THE maater forger, with delicate precision, had set the cat' among the con- noisseurs,'
People love to see the ex- perts fooled - and this the little Dutchman had
Thus prepared, he retired in 1937 to the solitude of his villa in the South of France, and after seven months, with no modela save himself and an
who posed for! tallan beggar three days for the Agure of christ, he completed "The Disciples at Emmaus.”
Grand Total
van
Are
"JI
"Vermeers" when known to ba
Mergerens
now latively valueless.
ON SATURDAY: The Inspector-General Was ́A. Woman,
YOU CAN
AND
THE Animals Newspaper is
right on top of the news even before the "publication of the first number.
BE TOO TIRED
NOT
KNOW IT
By LES ARMOUR Don't if
he thought he was at three times their normal bo too sure you're too tired to exercise his rate;
akilo.
MEELING tired?
FEELIN
HE painting was shown to the late Dr A. Bredlus, a
who not.
succeeded in doing it in world-famous authority,
novel and devastating way, signed a guarantee testifying to
in
How does it happen?
the
mar-
Nothing, I agree, but I don't like the Innuendo. To make my paint clearer what would hap- pen in a Welfare State if a man could have several wives, with subsidised rents, family allow- ancos,nd tre medical atten tion for all his wives and children?
*. He'd have an even ingro
wonderful time.
*
Albert, for the benent of our reiddis I am trying to obtain your considered opinion of the social consequences in our State aldad society if every adult Englishiman married, say, a dozen wives, and begame" "the" father of 180 sons. What would bo the result?
Thers would be a lot more Englishmen,
Yes, I know, Albert, but what would happen to them later on? If they all granted a dozen when they grow up wives every Engllahman would have to become the father of 1,800 daughters as well as 150 sons, Albert, I'm thinking of the
!
He is carefully weighing his problems of housing, food, full spood against his distance from, employment, and pensions, a runway. His eyes are on dosen dials And op a check points at once.
dozen
A public opinion poll at the it being a genuino Vermeer. You can be tired to the time revealed him to be With this backing none dare point of serious fatigue and The human body is a curious
question. the most popular man
never know it, And that machine. It will strive to obey The discovery of the "master is one of the big hazards the commands of the mind leng He must throw everything he Holland after the Prime picco" was made known in the Minister.
November 1937, Issue
has into the job, of the of modern industrial civilien- after it loses tip-top shape, When as far back as 1932 Burlington Magazine. In De tion..
It will faller without giving And that applies to a lot of his talent was denied the cember the canvas was sold to
any' warning, Dellente nerve people. in modern.jobs, Cab the Rembrandt Society for Last week, a court of connections which govom re delvers recognition he thought it g02,000.
„bus dervorm, minching inquiry ant to find out why ex actions will fall to connect operate being as a dead- deserved, van Meegeren's .... It was the and of the century
will porters battling against a nimble brain had already magnificent Vermeer. Some & British Overseas Air perfectly and the mind
ine often. work over the Jimit," begun to formulate his rated it the most moving and Waya Constellation shattered never know about it.. great hoax. The critics re- profound work ever to come against a dazzling concrete garded him as one who had Between then and the trial of unway in Singapore last aquandered the promise 1947 van Meegeren perpetrated March, killing 88 people.
forgeries, which of early years; he was seven
Their verdicts The pilot determined to prove them brought him in a grand total
of £703,000,
made a mistake. He was Typ Madhu Thus did his revenge pay off overtli He had been' Bucharo the fictitious com-In A A: October 1947, marcial values which attach to Meogeren was sentenced to one on the job for 22 hours.
orks of (art, that only the your Imprisonment. ignature to a painting seams to December of that your ho died matter. The name van), less, of a heart attackz hating kurang want valueless, but Very The story, however, dos
from this master's hand,
other
VRH
"But the pilot,
is
:'_You_needn't---like" the BOAC pliot-diave been on the job for 32 hours. zint: will happen particularly
are woring under high || The "limit” say doctors,
Repunot constant, y. It may be okay Vento, dig a ditch for, eight hours so hard on at a stretch, it may not be okay doing it that the to do a job wilch reburenga (all) the Hormal your mental eberity and tightens
warning!
length of time ATLE Sight: Bo sit back drid (which you
What Bok
and you thinking of, “ Ha, ha
Out with it, Albert,
Come closer and Pil `whis- Der. It All right, then. Go on-
Wo're not writing that kind of Albert, I'm ashamed of you, column. Let's try something else Freddie Mills the boxer says he will cancel his proposed Membership of the ConseryMiva. Party Brains Trust. If golfieri questions are to be asked. He Boys he knows nothing about pollies. Any comment??..
Yes. He seems to have thD perfect quaillosilane to beat Come pollifoal writer for Karl Ja Blog It, Albert