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English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Mountebank may refer to: A charlatan who sells phony medicines from a platform;
The English word comes from French charlatan, a seller of medicines who might advertise his presence with music and an outdoor stage show. The best known of the Parisian charlatans was Tabarin , whose skits and farces – which were influenced by commedia dell'arte – inspired the 17th century playwright Molière .
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.
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.
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.
John Romulus Brinkley (later John Richard Brinkley; July 8, 1885 – May 26, 1942) was an American quack doctor, broadcaster, marketer and independent politician.He had no accredited education as a physician and bought his medical degree from a diploma mill.
Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, and biographer, was convinced that Macpherson was "a mountebank, a liar, and a fraud, and that the poems were forgeries". [13] Johnson also dismissed the poems' quality. Upon being asked, "But Doctor Johnson, do you really believe that any man today could write such poetry?" he famously replied, "Yes ...
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English actor and filmmaker. Beginning his career in theatre, he first appeared in the West End in 1937. He made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock 's The Lady Vanishes in 1938.