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Mountebank may refer to: A charlatan who sells phony medicines from a platform; Monte Bank, a card game; The Mountebanks, a comic opera by Alfred Cellier and W. S ...
Poster for The Mountebanks. The Mountebanks is a comic opera in two acts with music by Alfred Cellier and Ivan Caryll and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert.The story concerns a magic potion that causes the person to whom it is administered to become what he or she has pretended to be.
Pietro Longhi: The Charlatan, 1757. A charlatan (also called a swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or a similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, power, fame, or other advantages through pretense or deception.
Monte Bank, Mountebank, Spanish Monte and Mexican Monte, sometimes just Monte, is a Spanish gambling card game and was known in the 19th century as the national card game of Mexico. [1] It ultimately derives from basset , where the banker (dealer) pays on matching cards.
Advertisement for Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment. While showmen pitching miraculous cures have been around since classical times, [2] the advent of mixed performance and medicine sales in western culture originated during the Dark Ages in Europe after circuses and theatres were banned and performers had only the marketplace or patrons for support. [2]
Belphegor the Mountebank is a 1921 British silent film directed by Bert Wynne and starring Milton Rosmer, Kathleen Vaughan and Warwick Ward.It is based on the play Belphegor, the mountebank : or, Woman's constancy from the 1850s by Charles Webb.
Belphegor the Mountebank, directed by Bert Wynne (UK, 1921, based on the play Paillasse) Orphans of the Storm, directed by D. W. Griffith (1921, based on the play The Two Orphans) Rosita, directed by Ernst Lubitsch (1923, based on the play Don César de Bazan) The Spanish Dancer, directed by Herbert Brenon (1923, based on the play Don César de ...
Francis Tumblety (c. 1833 – May 28, 1903) was an Irish-born American medical quack who earned a small fortune posing as an "Indian Herb" doctor throughout the United States and Canada. [1]