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THE FORGOTTEN ACTRESS ELBOWS OUT SIR RALPH
Report from Rome by Thomas Wiseman
UNTIL I came here had Babylon, but apparently Miko-
forgotten
Kerbau.
anapel
about the
There been are others who oqually forgetful. in Eng land. But not here in Rome. where everyone is talking about her.
Babylonians kings and architects Hought wing these lines
sakl Has plunderer', 1. n was just like L
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Hasl no nižas research, "T bankans just like these. Nu- ally, not clctrically operated. You know,"
he went on
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had
Korina The Algerian enthusiastically. "they have got
Karl with
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Dr Kerima,
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But when 1 met her Kee the other day
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HOL IL Habylonian tetuple... they several of Uuse. Mussell
of
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are courtyneth-they
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how much. One day I get a whole palace for £25, the next day they charge me £100 for a
lite swimming pool,“
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Ithardi Me maltaan was dashing betweezi marble pillars, sword in handh the mung over and weled
neboc
Well," he said. "better
that being Esther Wall
2 manatag pin ther. That have bern three times already
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THE
DEVIES
HOOFPRINTS
CONSIDERABLE EXCITEMENT has been caused mong the inhabitants of this place since Friday last in cantequence of a report that a strange animal, not known, had whether natural or supernatural is pard us wiit.
Hrs footprints were traced through the greater purt of the town.
They resembled somewhat those of a donkey, but to add to the affect of mystery it was rumoured that
in some mstances they were
'cloven".
Donut correspondent of Woolmer's Exeter
Ca orte February 17, 1855
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hunter tracking and the truth
canned prevent a sigh of frigeration.
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Another of the World's Strangest
Stories
by
FELIX BARKER
heights
of
In two-and-a-half years Kerima has made x lims, the Lunet the let me beg
Confound
vorm letters to the Illustrated London Ish were to be traced for miles Pharaohs" with Jack Hawkus
รา | 1 the Samme o She does not anticipate displae spenchant
wh dayed News, from brief, ironical little up to the wooded OUT Posit Hawkins from the top billing
be
Der Friruury paragraphs under beadings such Luscombe Park. ID :
as "SATAN IN THE DIOCESE why, dit day tass' Wa hare "He and the Pyramid
they put po sa arat bring back OF HENRY EXETER." The only good parta," she says.
How
Arst-beard does one become 64 autress without my training? might have
on of t teries of all times”
in the firm.
And what does one have to have for Itz
NOVOURI that Wi Broer basis for Paffling my
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What serius tolerelay reriom
that on that Friday morning 99 years ago the minibitants of
vil about u dezen Lowie atd.
It was a bitter winter, the worst, some said, that the West
had Country
known for
yeurs
London
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There were reports of them in places as far north as the old report of Topsham and to the south as far as Totnes and Tor- quay.
to stir after cansei or to go out half a mile into lanca or by ways... under the conviction that this in the Devil's walk and none other."
The braver in heart--a party "f tradesmen itick others Dawlish-sycat best part of the Friday tracing the footprints through the surrounding countryside armed with guns and bludgeons Their long.
weary.search
...was qulig bull
Miss Fursten also put for. wand an explanation she heard at the time of how the foot- prints were modo-that they were a cat's paw-marks which with the thaw and light rain bc-
were partly washed away fore the sharp frost froze the then-expanded prints in a shope resembling a small hoof.
This certainly its in with the bh known weather conditions the story which had Bickered baly faintly faded out that night, bus does not explain what induced so many cats to ef the local papers, leaving
luve their Devon and posterity with no
warm resides. It explanation is almost easier to believe that, satisfactory
more
than one offered by Sir Richard as in Coleridge's poem, the
Owen
When drawings of the marks were subenlited to this fomnis naturalist he
pronounced them
to have been made by the hind foot
of a badger but, like the solution that they were of an
otter or Crather Ingeniously)
marks made by the tour feet of n leaping tat, this hardly explaineri why they appeared in so many places on a particular night.
It is tantalising that for all the speculation there is not (und of the Bles I have examined nearly every local paper for the period) one single contemporary eyewitness account by a person prepared to sign his name and only one by someone using a pseudonym.
Her Terror
to
Devil left his brimstone bed at the break of day, "to visit hij.
mug ittle farm the Earth" see how his stock was furiog.
to
!
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TO-DAY
Saturday
Becember
Grognised by the Marianne Reichl Aid to Lepers Group.
Presenting the Tudor Oyster Prince
For the man whose purse is modes), yet whose aspirations are high Rolex of Geneya have specially com missioned the Tudor Oyster Prince. In many respects, the amazing Tudor Oyster Prince, matches the most expensive wristwatches. For Rolex of Geneva have endowed this" watch with the fampus Oyster water- through the places In which-proof caso and the infallible "roto they appeared and 11. as 15 self-winding mechanism. vaguely suggested in some re- parts, they joined up village to village.
It is also impossible now establish a basic point whether
The marks, shaped like * hoof, were 4 inches long by 24 the footprints were continuous there
inches wilc, Bud, very curiously, were all in a straight line, me fallowing the next and cach about eight inches apart.
"Naturalness." mys Kerima.
When producers say in me.
faraway In *Kerimu smoke it cigarette,
wus skating on the Thames at Kemma, druk amp of tea.
Kimeston and even under tho feel really wont to smoke a
lages in So: Reven woke to tunnels of The Regent's Park cigarete and drink the cup of
wind sw-covered Belts Canni; and in Devon So I do a naturally. Carol and wheir Reed told me, 'Do not take End gard
their driven snow piled up six feet poofs and Jayetacies, It might spot you.
covered in a single night and the River jessons. Stay as you are. So stay as with strange vetprints.
Exe freze solid.
I um
leil.
and even
Bitter Winter
There were bonfires on the fee at Tiverton, and at Paignton a schooner was driven ashore by the violent farms. A Mr. Vickary, of Fore Street, Exeter, Legend has doublodig un- Vid has use for Mussotiul's proved on foot, bull chough even laid a gas-pipe across the Fair. It In ridea ext to show that lee and there, right
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Thus we have a magnificent watch, thoroughly, waferproofed, automatically wound, yet priced, at a moderate level..
Rolex of Geneva, have submitted, the Tudor Oyster Prince to the most rigorous tests ever devised for a self- winding wrist-watch. So impressivo were the results of these tests, that
making an ideal pằm not for those footprints were pocu. And mkidle of the river, triumphant he adḍcó flavour to the story have managed to And one state- has been decided to make them the
by sayingly only
visitor
Rhomin Fleming and Ricardo however perilously circumdan- ly cooked a leg of mutten in a Montalban, starring in the film, tial most of the reports,
they patent stove. "Courtesan of Babylon"
Appened it
numbeta Or
Today there is no one alive in that part of the country who remember that are the specifications can possibly given by soomeone signing him- long-ago February morning, but self "South Devon" in a letter to with the help of the Devonshire the Illustrated London News, county
librarian at Exeter 1
"This mysterious
which does carry the
subject of a world-wide advertising passed ment
cach stamp of authenticity.
campaign. The grst advertisement this courtyard
Admittedly it was made by in this series is reproduced below, regular truck passing in some On the night of Thursday, instances over the roofs of an old, Indy nearly 10 years. For those of your customers who February 9, there was a heavy fall of snow-about four inches houses and hayricks and very after the event, but at least we look longingly at a Rolex Perpetual, pro, soon after 11. the high walls (one 14 foot) without know her to be a real person but lack Ure means to buy, ong, show
on elthor dlspincing the snow was followed by rain and a bols hall Ficet Strut rushing to
I doubt, somehow. whether spread over 100" miles of Mye this is the use Mussolini had in-countryside.
tended for it. Bls dream was to
expand Rome up it was a elty Today the first whisper of it
once down garden
or
across
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The Thuật Quilt Prince, sponsor, ad by kolaz of Geneva, Water proofed by the famous dyster case, self-wound by the uniqim "rator" mechanism, the Tudor Oyster Prince in the most out-
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on the schfront. He began 25, foltuliar phenomenon wimhl 50512-terous east wind. Before dawn Elde or altering the distance:be and fæer, observation to be. Arst them the Tudor Oyster Prince. In Itaj z standing wrist-watch for price
building on an area the size of
Battersea Park, just outside the Exinboth and Lympstory and the next morning there was
Dawlish. Even if thaw beat hard frost. reporters und photographers to swimming the marks, there would pools. It was to have been a dozens of interviews to authon
city-towering marble palaces. pavilions, colonnades. court.
fountains. yart, setting of the World Fair, but work stopped in 1940 and was nover resumed.
tleate what tried trean scen.
:
According to the report which appeared in The Times:
The Marks
tween the feet and passing on no hand.
it the wall had not been àn im- pediment."
She
fleld, this is undoubtedly the finest watch Swiss skill and experience have ever produced. It is retalled to the public, as illustrated.
Henrietta is. Miss Fursden, daughter of the Bev From such detall obviously Edwart Fursien, the vicar of grow the first tallt of the Devil, and, perhaps a liulo, icked that Dawlish at the time. In 1923 the London pipory had benten she wrote: myself remem But that
the way
them to it the local venelles, bor distinctly seeing the toot waz not The place is usually deserted
Lho
sithed Ignored the lingur: prints, and my tecrợc în a child, now, but a short wolle no things we enkred in
adopted an 'aiutude of tipugui of the unknown, wild beast the mickile of the last century. The film
moved in with scores ter eat back apparently unit
might be lurking about fas the footprints, were to be copilem hors, dozens of harem Kirla and hundreds of extras. They happy to awalt leiters on the sten in ut idada, et inaccessible But editorial ridiculq did not the servantu would not, ge, out focused their colour cameras on cul content with, i local man who pul marrow wall in surdens youssure locul corsis. In the after duck to shut outer doors'?
subject weeks later: they sein places on the tople at houses the nicoleton of Murcolini's 20th Century dream and deelded it badevilled his necount with and courtyarda enclosed by high small towns, and villages on
Uke "in consequences of walls and palings, as well as in scattered chitores the footpipe she recalled that the foot looklet. Just likọ Babylon in 1000report" and "it"ja, radioured." oben fields. There' who, hardly caused considerable'alarme i ti prie woke "álk over Dawlish!
garden in Lympstone where
dns Her father ng vicam Nearly all that is known of the footprints, were not
dbe. We know tint these on that Friday, thisted because on the following, Killed by Els, curat suh ob fur rugs spread out be- the famous, "Devil's Footprints" served
derives from eleh lackadaisical -
Sunday Day Mr Musgrave churchwarders whe Fb dug role in the Journaliere frain à report The footprinta, crossed the found 11 foodman, to prosch a Bhe filmskod, the producer The Times Abying "It appears eatuary to the Exe at a point sermon, at Lynbcont whether all this was not rathion that on Thursday, might...where it is two miles wide, and Chrisundi scorta
initialled from the parian churchs at Dawn and bles molera, for a story of ancient from anonymous or
BG, When I drove out there. I1a found Miss Rhonda Fleming luxuriating under Rume'n warm
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