The Brussels Post, 1962-09-20, Page 2brief barrister to start crimin-
al 4 proceedings against Malskat,
himself and Dr. Fey. This *art- .
ed a police. inquiry.
CAUGHT IN THE CRUSH — President Kennedy is mobbed as he tries to sign en auto-
graph after nearly 300 members of.cin experiment in international living called on him at
the White House, After greeting the group, the President walked among them informally
and!{ soon foynd himself being pushed and shoved by enthusiastic well-wishers, most of
whom'are from Inclla„..
A fr a tt d squad raidestJ Dr.
Fey's &epeneliye villa and ,found.
a hoard of forged "Fren&h im-
pressionist" paintings. During
the trial in 1954. Malshat ex-
plained that he had. betrayed
his accomplice because he want-
ed recognition as a great artist..
Fey's defence-was impressive,
"The murals mast 'be from the
lath century," he said. 'They
bear • a ..remarkable likeness to
the Oothic wall paintings in the
Schleswig. Cathedral.
"An eminent critic has des-
-these as 'the greatest ex-
pression. of Teutonic art.' And as
the Lubeele. and Schleswig mur-
als show identical .brush marks,
there is no doubt . they were
both 'done by the Same genius."'
Malskat declared: "The pro-
fessor is absolutely right.
painted the frescoes in Schles-
wig Cathedral too!"
Malskat told how he had,
'painted his murals behind mov-
able panels on a high scaf-
fold.
One final piece of proof was
bizarre in its hammer. Maiskat
had included turkeys in his Lu-
beck Work, but the turkey is
„a native of America, and had
not been introduced into Eur-
ope until long after the murals
were supposed to have been
painted. ...,
But experts said that the tur-
IWYs finally proved. that Vikings
had discovered America before
Columbus!
Dr.' Fey w e he to prison for
twenty months. Then Malekat
was charged with fraud, too,
He fought this fiercely, show-
ing where he, had put an in-
scription in Lubeck church say-
paintings in this
church are by Lothar M.alekat."
'But -the inscription had b e e
painted over arid. he was unablee
to prove that he hadn't done
this:, himself, He was sent to
prison for sixteen months.. But
he had: destroyed Fey's reputa-
ton and built one for himself.
Mart's Forgeries
Fooled The World
One of Western Germany's
most successful and wealthiest.
painters is Lothar Malskat. }le
4s also one of the most skilful
ihoaxers in history.
IIis hoaxes emlaarrassed' many
.VEttrope's leading art ,experts
well as the burghers. of the
Germany city of • Lubeck, And
,1Malskat himself Was wont to
prison,.
Nobody had ever heard of
24alskat in 1951 when "Lubeck
celebrated, ,00th anniversary,
gighlight of the festivities 'ivas
h e unveilOg of 1;ith century
murals in ancient St. Mary's
Church, hailed as. "the VreateA
art find of the cedtury."
The hero of this. discovery was
Dr. Dietrich Fey, the renowned
art expert. Dr, Fey told how he
had uncovered the murals while
repairing wartime •botrib dam-
age to the church.
The West German Govern-
meat decorated Fey, gave hint
a cash grant and issued. 2,000,000
commemorative s t amps. Dr.
.Adenauer officiated at the un-_
veiling, and Dr. Fey made a
lengthy speech: "Nothing is
known of the genius who paint-
cod these frescoes," he said, "ex-
cept that he was active in about
the year 1280,- •
Soon afterwards Lothar
sicat walked into Lubeck police
station and said: "The murals
in St. Mary's Church are fakes,
I painted them at Dr. Fey's
erders.."
The police threw him out, but
he kept coming back, usually
with pieces of evidence. He said
that he had also painted about
600 pictures in. the style of old
end new mestere; all - these Dr,
'trey had sold — after officially
verifying them as genuine. 'a
Lubeck councillors approach.-
eel Dr, Fey, who dismissed Male •
$tat as ",e,., .clisgruntled, unb a le
4..nced" employee whom he had
tired. The council was happy to
Fey
with the distinguished Dr.
against Malskate
Malskat's next step was to
ea„ -
ON WITH THE NEW — Italy
contributes more beauty and
talent to international' movie-
making in the person of
Georgia' Moll, who is co-star-
red with Robert Preston and
Tony Rondall in "Not on Your
Life" being filmed in Greece.
The 24-year-old miss speaks
six languages well.
Birds Sabotage
Rocket Range
Birds get blamed and perse-
cuted for attacking almost every
variety of crop frOm fields of
brussels sprouts to fruit-laden
orchards.
Because of the habit, too, of
some speciee, chiefly seagulls
and starlings, of flocking to air-
ports and alighting on runways,
serious damage is often done to
aircraft, sometimes with fatal
consequences.
But, in South Australia, a new
charge is being laid against, the
feathered invaders: that of sa-
botaging the Woomera rocket
range.
Here, weather observers corn-
, plain of high-altitude attacks
carried out by hawks with vici-
ous, balloon-stripping beaks,
To check weather conditions
in the upper atmosphere, large
balloons are released, carrying
meteorological equipment. To
the hawks, these floating obsta-
cles appear as enemies. And, be-
ing pugnacious birds, they don't
hesitate to attack at sight and
thsee "soft-fleshed" in-
truders.
Recently, two balloons, in-
volved in an aerial battle, fell
to the ground, limp and punc-
tured by several deadly beak
stabs, An irritated scientist re-
marked: "A human saboteur
couldn't have' done the job bet-
ter,"
How Sherlock Holmes
Tales WerfLW ritten
The notion of writing a series
of short stories round the char-
acter of Holmes came to Doyle
when he read the monthly maga-
zines that were then beginning to
cater to the train-traveling pub-
lic. "Considering these various
journals with their disconnected
stories, it had struck me ,that a
single character running through
a series, if it only engaged the at-
tention of the reader, would bind
that reader to that Particular
magazine. On the' other hand, It
had long seemed to me that the
ordinary serial might be an- im-
pediment rather than a help to a
magazine, since, sooner or later,
one missed one nuMber and af-
terwards it had lost all interest.
Clearly the ideal compromise was
a character which carried ,
through, and yet instalments
which were each complete in
themselves, so that the purchaser
was .always sure that he could
relish the whole contents of the
magazine'. believe that d was
the first to ,realize ,this and, .The
'Strand Magazine the first to put
it into practice.". His agent, A. P.
Watt, sent "A. Scandal in. Bo-
hemia" to, the editor of The
Strand, dreenheugh Smith, who
liked it -and encouraged Doyle: to
go ahead 'with the series...
As we -have Seen, he seldom
took morethan a week to writea
story. While living in South Nor-
wood, where the last seven of; the
Adventures and all the Memoirs
were written, he worked from
breakfast to lunch and 'from -five
to eight in theevening,'averaging
three thousand words aeday, and -
many, of his'ideas came to him in
the afternoons, when walking pr
cricketingt tricerelini or play-
ingetennis: August 1892 hefold
an .interviewer that -he -was fear-
ful of spoiling a ':character of
which he .was narticuiarly fond,
but that hehact enough material,
to, carry hiniahroughnanother ser-
ies - (the Memoirs);Ith'e oPening
story of which., was in his view 'so
unsolvable that he had bet his
wife a shilling she,., would,, not
,guess the explanation. It was a
safe bet: "Silver Blaze" is one of
his most brilliant bits 'Of Wark.-1.
From "Conan Doyle."' by Hesketh
Pearson,
Girle,standing beside4Wo Tex-
"ans looking at Niagara Falls
bet you don't have anything
like that in . "No,' but
we have plumbers who could
fix it,"
Obey the traffic signs — they
are placed there for Y ()tin,
SAFETY,
ISSUE 38 — 1962
RUSSIAN LIMES Photo
Wrens a Soviet soufte shows
oviet model in Leningrad in
Russian-designed, knee-
length tweed, suit which will-be
introduced ot the Leipzig In-
ternational 'Fair this fall.
"SPIIRAL FLARE CASE —"In-
spired by the "Gay Nineties,"
Jean DesseS of Paris designed
this evening dress, softly !,
draped around the figure. The
contour of the figure is ae-
conted 'With a spiral frill start-
)ng from the hemline and
winding to one•shotildee
'took a,t,Dicts, Mother! And
Sae sari I don't know
netic woman the heroine of, his
greatest love story. Her capacity
for love is indisputable. She had
a way with those susceptible
Romans. As for Antony, we are
told that she fascinated him
with "the arts of love."
Elizabeth Taylor's attractive
voice, with its trace of huski-
ness, has proved useful in her
film portrayal of. Cleopatra.. But
what kind of voice had the Teals
life Cleopatra? .
It was delightfully melodious,
we•a.re told. P 1,u t'a inch says:
"There wes, a sweetness, in -the
sound her, voice.;!„,And an--
o th e r writer `teatifies:, "Her
of speech Was Rich that
she won all Whb listened,"
It .seems' that Creepatra' al-
ways- woeeei the, most alluring.
eperfumes.,,,And, when , she ,jour-
neyed in „a gelleyealeng the Nile e,
in' hot weathee, boys, "like smil-
ing Cupids;". fanned' her with
brilliantly `coleureci ostrich 'tea=
, thers. -
Cleopatra loved luxury as welle
as love-making, She „provided
sumptuous„ feasts for 'her guests.
There is a record of one 'visitor
to the kitchens of Cleopatra's
palace who was amazed to see
eight wild boars roasting
"Qu e en Cleopatra eVidently
has a very large fitaber"Of
guests coaling today'" he- re-,
fnarked toeher chief chef,''
"No, only -Antony and ,one,, eta
two others," was the reply.,
Some tell us that Cleopatra
Rived riding and hunting with
Antony in the desert — just to
wear off some of the effects' of..:'
their high living,
She would renep, through, the
halls of her palace with him,
sags one .hietoriane Arid she en-
joyed watching, him Wrestle 'and
fence. •
Playwrights, s Cl'p t writers;
novelists' — they have all been,
striving for- yearseto. fathom the
mystery Cleopatra's immense
,appeal.
Some have ,portrayed' 'as
rtless, 'others, taking the line
that for her ambition was al'-
ways 111.0 Po 4tcPertant, than, love.
It is thought that "she 'tried
h e r powers of fasciaiallait 'oh
Antony's ',final conqueror, Octa-
vita — soon to become Angus-
. tus,, the, first Emperor of, Rome.
It is suggested that it Was be-
cause he was proof' against her '
powers that she killed herself.
Legend says that Cleopatra's
bones still lie, with those of
Antony, under a powder-maga-
*Me in the harbour 'o f Alexan-
dria,
One thing is r certain — that
when ehe pressed the asp agairist
her, bosom, and killed herself,
she ended a life which is today
brie 'of the World's greatest re-
antle legeridt.
Was Cleopatra
Realty A_Beauty?
By modern standards, was
Cleopatra 'that passionate, se-
ductive and charming queen
who ruled Egypt more than
2,000 years ago — really a great
beauty?'
Did this dazzling but danger-
ous woman now- living • again
in Elizabeth Taylor's" portrayal
of her.. in the $30,000,000 film
epic — really have a perfect fig-
ure, a lily-white skin, lustrous
dark eyes, coal-black, curly 'hair
and lovely, irresistible lips?
Legend answers "Yes." But
legend may be wrong.
In fact,, some down-to-earth
historians assert that she was.
no beauty. A few have inferred
that she may even have been
plain.
But none deny that this "wily
serpent of the Nile," as she has
been called, this woman whose
charms conquered Julius Caesar
when she Was still a teenager,
had phenomenal personality and,
a mysterious allure.
Caesar helped her to crush
her foes, and slew her brother
before eharing the throne of
Egypt wi th her, later falling
under the daggers of conspira-
tors in Rome.
Let's forget, for a moment, the
extravagant praise lavished by
ancient and modern writers on
Cleopatra's personal a p p e a r-
anee — and also the exotic
beauty of Elizabeth. Taylor as
she will be seen by millions in
the film, wearing sixty gowns
and thirty wonderful wigs.
Picture, instead, "a strong-will-
ed woman with aquiline features
suggesting refinement rather
than voluptuousness, a woman
of "slight physique," as one his-
torian describes her, and with
vital statistics less impressive
than those of -most modern,
beauties.
"The heads of Cleopatra on a
few coins and an indifferent
bust in the British Museum do
not give the impression 'of a
woman of outstanding loveli-
ness," writes another,
In one relief from the Tem-
pi e of Hathor at Dendera, in
Egypt, Cleopatra is shown 'wear-
ing an elaborate"wig and crown.
But no man today would bo-
ther to give her a-second glence,.
wearing even the most fetch-
ing modern clothes, she could
return to life and pass him in
the street.
For the relief shoes that her
profile is not particularly at-
tractive, Her neck is thick, she
kicks rather podgy and has no
epvioue 'sex appeal — althoughl
of course; standards 61 beauty
differ throughout history, and
even from race to race.
But let's be fair to this 'wom-
an who, after Caesar had fallen,
sailed in a galley embroidered
with a canopy of gold to meet
Mark Antony, bewitching h i m
to such an extent that he lost
his heart to her at once.
She must have had enormous
charm to thrill and` fascinate
these two great men before her,,
tragic end, suicide — tradition-
ally by the bite an an asp —
soon after Mark Antony had.
killed himself,
Perhaps her astonishing flair
for exotic, long clinging robes
helped, Her hair-does w er a
robahly magnificent. -
Incidentally, the g r e a t, new
'revival of interest in the real
Cleopatra is already inspiring
some fashion designers to
evolve "Cleopatra styles" for
evening wear in thee U rt i t e d
States,
And recently Mrs, acque i
:Kennedy herself wore what fa-
shion ddsigriere in Washington
called a Cleopatra haired°, 'with
large black bow tied Just over
her forehead,
In trying to sum tip the real.
Cleo p a tr a, Egyptologists are
pretty sure she was brilliantly
clever' a it d Particularly witty
and alriusing in 'the company of
Men.
Shakespeare Made this. Meg-
WAR PAINT — Mrs'r. Cecil Walker, dressed in full'Indian
itegalia, makes sonic minor make-up repairs via her farniry'S
Outo mirror., She was getting set for the third annual pow-
*ow at the old agehty gtoLlhds, north of Topeka.
eovered by• ematie .'f WI
ILDOWIA enreLP0Alti01):.
Certainly it the surface tem-
perature4,i are as high as some
In t a :400, degrees cerl ti-
' grade sis?i! err --- it is going to
"make }Minim .exploration of the,
pi: net very difficult, and make
Me of any kind as it is known
nn earth. virt ual ly ienOdesib5.
• Aneiont fvuulionle.0 used to,
think inat,Ventis was two stars,
since it is 'nee cbserved through,
out the, night but appears in both
morning and evening s'Isiee.
The morning star, -so-called.
since it appeared just before
sunrise, was called Phosphorus,
The similar-looking evening star
was teamed Heepertis;
Bue,eomewhere bac:4, in. the
lost pages of history etn astronoe
mer discovered that the White-
shrnu Phuphorus was the
HoSperus.
planet was then niimed Venue
'for the .Roman's goddess of :flow-
ers, and then of love.
Man has not learned much,
actuall.yeethout Venus esincee chat
day.
What Mariner II should do (in,
the 30 minutes or so it has to,
observe Venus in close-up) is
answer at least some of -the
mysteries about the planet that
have so intrigued mankind for
centuries.
—
Modern Etiquette
Ry Anne Ashley
Q. l's it; proper t- o say "thank
• YoO" to a waiter and, if so,
' when?
• A, Certainly eee fote any court-
testes you neey think "above an
beyond the e call of thity."' It 't
• not necessary to` thank him' stir
,ply fqr 04 -proffering •hr any
, dishes, however. „ .;
Q. With a joint checking ac-
count, is it correct for the wife
to' 'sign checks as "Mrs. Harry
Baker?"
A. The correct Way for, hertte
sign the checks, depends upon,
'how she hes sMped ,the
ture card at. the .bank._ She' may
y adopt the fb"rni."-eif "i.'s. tarry'
Baker," or she may ' sign there
as "Mary Gi 'Bdker." •
Ott
LY'S SALLIES
ettcas — The Most
Mysterious; Planet
Before the year :is ottiohe
United States, shzuld littyq on-
looked .some sirets
cf . its ..sh4ter..pItinot, Venus.
That is, • if Mariner the
la.000,000 spacecraft Tr w k• it its.
131,000.000 'mile trip to yolim
pirforma as expected,
Of rill the planets Venufi is
the most: mysterious 'though `'
the closest to the earth, and the
third brightest object in, the
heavens atext to the sun and
moon.
The reason is 'that it is COD-
stantly covered 'by a dense blan-
ket of clouds. Astronomers
therefore have not been able to
make direct" Observations of its
surface, as they have of Mars,
the moon, other heavenly
bodies. , • e .
One of the puzzling features
of Venus the changeable dank
and light markings that appear
on its cloud layer. What do they
signify? IloW...'do they origin,
ate?
Some people have guessed
they mark breaks in the cloud
cover, But they have no regu-
larity, and so far it has been.
impossible' to see through them,
Another mystery is the length
of a day on Venus. Quite a num-
ber • of astronomers and space
scientists believe that Venus
rotates on its axis at a slow
rate, possibly only ,at every
725 "earth" days,
However„ it' ass iknoWn `that A
Venus-year lasts 225 earth-days,
that is, it takes '225 , earthedaye'.
for Venus, to revolve around the .,
sun.
If the length 'cif rbtation guess
is correct; then it ,woUld mean' "
that the planet tulles only once
in about ,the time - it, takes to
complete an orbit. IT so, an as-
tronomer's "day" on Venus
would lasts a w,hole-Venus-year.
Or since one side of the planet
—, like the moon — would al-
ways be facing the sun, that side
Iwould enjoy perpetual (day"'
while eh& `other would always
be in. darkness'. *
But not .all astronomers be-
lieve it takeS. 225' earth-daysnfor
Venus to make 'a spin around' its'
The Soviets, for example, have ,
puteout a recent study on Venus
indicating that their observa-
tions suggest a Venus-day lasts'
only about-nine earth-days. 'How-
ever, they postulate this on so
many "ifs" and premises. thatte
they too accept the possibility
of a 225 earth-day -on Venus.- -
They also mention, studies eby
ethers indicating. a Ventts-day
may be even .,shorter 'than an
.,earth-day, 2r2 hours and 11 min-
utes to be exact. ' -
So until Mariner II, and pos-
ibly space shots, can fa-
them 'the secrets of Venus, the
range" of guesses as to the length
of a Venus-day goes from less
'than one earth-danto•sevenTd
one-half earth-inOpthS4
If Venus always presents the
same face to the sun, it is as-
sumed by many that the temper-
atures there are either faritas-
tically hot or incredibly cold.
But some scientists believe that
the impression that the planet
is very hot comes from the pres-
ence in the ionosphere around
Venus of thousands of times the
electron deneity of the earth,
writes Neal Stonford in the
Christian Science Monitor.
Still others believe ' that the'
high 'temperatures ire dire' to a
"greenhouse" , _effect in which
The sun's energy is trapped
eaeath the dense cloud isirrhadon.
And another theory Miles' that
the suriacei sofe Venus-. is heated
by friction producedeehy' high,
winds and dust, clouclar." '
'So until a spacecraft can get
close enough to Venus to un-
ravel soirietf '.:fife'seeneystaiese-
the astronomers andeieetentistel
on earth are going Oseheye to
:continue to epecAeeen ein,
y 'characterenus and ebmposition of
On'e does not know, In fact,
if the- Surface off ',Venus is ,a solid
substance or Wheillage it„ is part-
. 1y, at .,least. (if not completely)
OOL RECEPTION hese huge denizens 'of the Arctic May be able to bear up um.] t
the bear facts of life' as Rornall citizens hurl 'cool," way-out souvenirs /kVA homes