#Wilfred Hyde-White

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What if when we were born we were each assigned a Wikipedia page like a social security number would that be fucked up or what

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READY FOR CAMERA — Cameraman photographs scene number before action starts on My Fair Lady shot at Warner Bros. Rex Harrison's hair gets last minute smoothing as he, Audrey Hepburn, and Wilfred Hyde-White (left) wait for camera to roll. Setting is in portico of St. Paul's Church. Jack L. Warner is personally producing the picture.

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Carry On Till Tomorrow (Remastered 2010)

From the film Magic Christian with Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers. With an all star cast making cameo appearance, Phil Spector, Hattie Jaques and Wilfred Hyde White to name a few.

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Friday, Aug. 05 at 8:00 p.m. THE THIRD MAN (1949) A man's investigation of a friend's death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.

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Highly Dangerous (1950) Director: Roy Ward Baker. Screenwriter: Eric Ambler

Entomologist Frances Gray (Margaret Lockwood) is asked by her boss Rawlins (Michael Hordern) and Mr. Hedgerley (Norton Wayne) from the Secretariat of the Imperial General Staff if she could go to an obscure Iron Curtain country to investigate the possibility that a scientist called Kassen has succeeded in breeding insecticide-resistant fruitflies that could be used as vectors for germ warfare against the West.

She refuses point-blank: she’s just about to go on her hols to Torquay. Hedgerley hitches a lift from her to the station, and en route she plays the night episode of the radio serial Frank Conway, Secret Agent. It is her duty to do so nightly, so that she can tell the story to her nephew Alan (Lance Secretan) before he goes to bed. That night, affected by her listening to the drama, she phones Hedgerley and agrees that, yes, she’ll do it. She’ll pretend to be a tourist agent while in reality trying to get hold of some insect samples.

When next we meet her she’s on the final stages of her journey behind the Iron Curtain, her flimsy cover being that she’s no longer Frances Gray but Frances Conway (Frank Conway—geddit?). Although she doesn’t realize it, her cabin companion is Commandant Anton Razinski, the sinister Chief of the State Police (Marius Goring). From this point onward Razinski will dog footsteps she didn’t even know she’d taken.

The movie’s standout performance is Goring’s. This may be because Goring could often be a bit of a ham; one of the most frightening personae that tyrants and their powerful minions can adopt is that of the ham—think Stalin. Here is Razinski trying to warn Frances and Bill off the bug farm:

Razinski: “You see, Miss Conway, I told you, there is nothing beautiful in Paritsa province. Nothing but pine trees.” Frances: “And soldiers.” Razinski: “And soldiers, yes. This is a military training area. That is why we have these barriers and precautions. A few months ago some people were shot accidentally in the woods. It was terrible.” Frances: “What people?” Razinski: “Tourists.”

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excerpt from John Grant’s film blog Noirish

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FORGOTTEN & OVERLOOKED : SKULLDUGGERY (Universal,1970)Burt Reynolds, Candy Clark)

FORGOTTEN & OVERLOOKED : SKULLDUGGERY (Universal,1970)Burt Reynolds, Candy Clark)

FORGOTTEN & OVERLOOKED will be a series of articles on science fiction ,horror, mystery ,and fantasy films that have somehow either been overlooked and /or not been made easily available for viewing . I am open to other suggestions and indeed other writers/creators who might wish to contribute to this series.

Contact Kevin at ScarletTheFilmMag@yahoo.com

Skullduggery – a forgotten Universal…

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Ritual of Evil - USA, 1970

Ritual of Evil – USA, 1970

Ritual of Evil is a 1970 American made-for-television horror feature film directed by Robert Day (The Initiation of Sarah; Fear No Evil; Grip of the Strangler) from a screenplay by Robert Presnell Jr., based on characters created by Richard Alan Simmons. Produced by David Levinson, the Universal movie stars Louis Jourdan, Anne Baxter, Diana Hyland andWilfrid Hyde-White.

Plot:

Psychiatrist Dr.…

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had a dream last night where i was watching a tv show and it had wilfred hyde-white in it but he was wearing a long white wig with double braids and i thought it was dope

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The cheeky comedy ‘The Toy’ starring Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason cracked up moviegoers this day 40 years ago. 💸🧸🎭

“𝙸 𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚊 𝚙𝚞𝚕𝚕 𝚞𝚙 𝚖𝚢 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚝𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚜𝚑*𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚛.”

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Universal Horror Reviews Part 5: The Werewolf movies

(This isn't an actual series, but they are all Universal horror films and are on this dvd box-set I own of "The Wolf Man: The Legacy Collection", so I decided to group them together)

Werewolf of London

This 1935 film is often seen as an attempt to imitate Paramount’s success with the classic film version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1931. And certainly Henry Hull’s character Wilfred Glendon has similarities with Jekyll/Hyde of the 1931 film that goes beyond those that the werewolf idea inherently has with Stevenson’s story. The character is a London-based scientist here. And while his werewolf form isn’t talkative, he is more human-acting and wears clothes, which gives him more of a Hyde feel. The transformation scene ending with him putting on his hat and coat and walking out seems taken right out of the 1931 Jekyll film. The film suggests that in werewolf form Glendon’s dark side is expressed, which gives the werewolf myth even more Jekyll/hyde overtones. There is a flower that can momentarily cure his lycanthropy, and Glendon’s desperate struggle to get it mirrors that of Hyde’s struggle for the transformation drug. The film also ends with him being shot by the police at his home and him transforming back into his human self as he dies.

The film’s heavy debt to the 1931 Jekyll and Hyde film is obvious and undeniable. And Werewolf of London while a fine film is also definitely inferior to Rouben Mamoulian’s Jekyll. It does not have the strong, stylish and innovative direction and editing that makes the 1931 film such a classic. And being made after the Hays Code in 1935, the disturbing sex and violence that makes the 1931 film so shocking even today is also absent.

Still this is a very well-made film. And it is still one of the first Hollywood werewolf films and as such has some ideas of its own. Glendon’s fate is not of his own making, and Henry Hull makes him into a sympathetic figure. He is a man turned into a killer against his will and tortured by his guilt. Yet he is not wholly sympathetic. He is also quite a waspish and jealous person. These negative characteristics are heavily implied to play a role in his actions as a werewolf. His wife Lisa Glendon (played by Valerie Hobson) meets an old childhood friend Paul Ames (Lester Matthews) and their friendship rekindles, which awakens a strong jealousy in Wilfred. And this jealousy seems to also exist in his werewolf form and seems to motivate him in the finale. It is another trace of the influence of the 1931 Jekyll/Hyde film, but it is still a very interesting character dynamic for a werewolf. Henry Hull shines in this complex role.

Apparently the design Pierce ended up using six years later for The Wolf-Man was his original idea for the werewolf in this film. But Henry Hull didn’t want too disfiguring make-up, so a more restrained version was used instead. It is still good, and the transformation sequences are well done.

Warner Oland plays Dr. Yogami. He is the werewolf who bit and infected Glendon with “werewolfery” (as Yogami calls it), yet also struggles with the guilt over his involuntary killing. Dr Yogami probably is the element of this film that has dated the most. Oland was a white Swedish actor and was perhaps Hollywood’s foremost yellowface actor in the 30s, with his greatest success in the role of Charlie Chan. His character here at least speaks good english and is portrayed sympathetically, but yellowface it is. Yet his performance is if you can look past that rather good. He plays a man who is in the same situation as Glendon. Yet the two werewolves come into a tragic conflict over the cure.

Universal’s later film The Wolf-man would ultimately become the defining werewolf film. And I overall prefer the latter film. It develops the werewolf idea further and in a more original fashion, free from the strong Jekyll and Hyde influences that hangs over this film. Yet several of its ideas came from this movie made six years earlier. And this is a well-made and very enjoyable film, brought convincingly to life by the acting, directing and special effects.

The Wolf Man

This film excels in gothic foggy environments

This film is perhaps the definitive werewolf film. In fact, it might be the most influential werewolf story. What Bram Stoker’s original Dracula novel was to vampires, this film might be for werewolves.

And that might be because it is such a compelling tragedy. Lawrence Talbot is the most sympathetic “universal monster” of them all. He is just an ordinary person, who gets bitten by a werewolf and turns into one himself. And what this leads to is an innocent man, who loses control of himself and is compelled to kill. It is an impossible situation, the guilt is terrible.

Certainly that was also in Werewolf of London, but Talbot is far more pitiable. There was the suggestion in the 1935 film that Wilfred Glendon’s werewolf form was an expression of his dark side (with shades ofJekyll and Hyde), his jealousy and aggression being unleashed in his murders. That isn’t the case with Larry Talbot, he attacks people that he loves and has no real reason to hurt.

It makes him into a more simple character perhaps, but it makes the film more focused and able to tug harder on the audience’s heart strings. The emotions are more direct, more strong. The audience might be unsure what to think of Wilfred Glendon, but Talbot feels more unambiguously deserving of our sympathy.

This is Lon Chaney Jr’s most famous role and it is perfect for him. Chaney Jr. was an underrated actor and this film is proof of that. By the end of the film, his entire bearing is expressing the guilt, anguish and fear Talbot is feeling.

The supporting cast is excellent too. Claude Rains is of course excellent as Lawrance’s father Sir John Talbot. His position is almost as difficult as that of his son. The very end of the film when he realizes the full tragedy of his and his son’s situation is heartbreaking.

Bela Lugosi is in this film too, relegated to an important but small role as the werewolf who infects Talbot. Putting an actor of such weight in a relatively small role might seem like a waste, but he adds to the film a lot. His character has not aged well, he is a romani stereotype but it is a sympathetic one and his screen presence makes the character work. Maria Ouspenskaya plays his mother, and despite the romani stereotyping she has to portray is actually quite touching as a maternal figure. And Universal stalwart Evelyn Ankers does good work as the love interest here.

The film is just beautifully mad. The great script by Curt Siodmak is an elegiac dark fairy tale. The dialogue has a mythical quality to it, and indeed it is sometimes mistaken for genuine folklore, like the famous “even a man who is pure in heart…” poem

Together with the atmospheric cinematography, set design, the wolf man’s make-up by Jack Pierce and the music all contributing to the gothic mood. It is perhaps the last great Universal horror film and remains an emotionally affecting tragedy.

She-Wolf of London

This is a movie that is almost impossible to talk about without spoiling it, it ends with a big twist that is very fun if you don’t see it coming.

I recommend seeing it before you read the rest of this review. It’s a good movie as long as you leave any preconceptions of what it should be at the door.

Reading about it, I’ve noticed this movie isn’t that well-liked among Universal horror film fans. It’s because it is really a mystery and not a proper supernatural horror movie. The idea of a female werewolf is suggested, but never actually shows up. And instead it ultimately becomes a mystery film. But it is a good one in my opinion. The suggestion of werewolves adds a nice gothic tinge to the mystery drama. The characters are interesting, there is some good fucked-up psychology driving the plot here. That the story is centered around and driven by three women feels refreshing even today, and definitely makes it feel different from other mystery films of the era.

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british tv has gifted us with such a wonderful array of Magical Old Geezers - may we present a selection for your delight

Wilfred Hyde-White

William Hartnell

Geoffrey Bayldon

Wilfred Bramble

Norman Lumsden

there are many more of course

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Wilfred Hyde-White    May 12, 1903 - May 6, 1991

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Audrey Hepburn and Wilfred Hyde-White in My Fair Lady (1964)

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Book Log of 2019

I kept a record of how many books I read in 2019. I liked most of them so I would recommend you give any of them or read.

So on with the list! If it has an X next to it then it means I didn’t finish reading it. 

#1: Warcross by Marie Lu.

#2: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi.

#3: Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C. Dao.

#4: Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova.

#5: A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Roshani Chokshi, Alyssa Wong, Lori M. Lee, Sona Charaipotra, Aliette De Bodard, E. C. Myres, Aisha Saeed, Preeti Chhibber, Renée Ahdieh, Rahul Kanakia, Melissa De La Cruz, Elsie Chapman, Shveta Thakrar, Cindy Pon, and Julie Kagawa.

#6: The 57 Bus by Daska Slater

#7: The Dark Descent Of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kristen White.

#8: Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

9#: Broken Things by Lauren Oliver.

10# The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

11# A Study In Charlotte by Arthur Doyle

12# Simon Vs The Homo sapiens agenda by Becky Albertalli

13# The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

14# Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

15# The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

16# Carry On by Rainbow Rowel

17# Teen Trailblazers, 30 fearless girls who changed the world before they were 20 by Jennifer Calvert

18# Evermore by Sara Holland

19# The White Stag by Kara Barbieri

20# One Dark Throne by Kendra’s Blake

21# Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

22# A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

23# King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo X

24# Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

25# The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

26# Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

27# Mythology by Edith Hamilton

28# Percy Jackson Greek Gods by Rick Riordan 

29# Two Can Keep A Secret by Karen M McManus

30# The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

31# Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

32# Superman: Dawnbreaker by Matt De La Peña

33# The Phantom of The Opera by Gaston Leroux

34# Roseblood by A.G Howard X

35# Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J Maas

36# Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

37# Velvet Undercover by Teri Brown

38# Through The Woods by Emily Caroll

39# The Wicked Deep by Shes Ernshaw

40# Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

41# Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

42# Where She Fell by Kaitlin Ward

43# Modern Herstory: Stories Of Women and non binary people rewriting history by Blair Imani

44# White Rabbits by Caleb Roehrig

45# To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Adapted by Fred Fordham

46# Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan

47# Ever The Hunted by Erin Summeril

48# Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte

49# Lost Souls, Be At Peace by Maggie Thrash

50# Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash

51# The Giver by Lois Lowry adapted by P.Craig Russell

52# My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand. Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

53# What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera X

54# An Assassin’s Guide to Love & Treason by Virginia Boecker

55# The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas adapted by Nokman Poon and Crystal S. Chan

56# The Fellowship Of The Ring by J.R.R Tolkien

57# What is someone I know is gay? By Eric Marcus X

58# Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig

59# The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien

60# The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien X

61# The Return of The King by J.R.R Tolkien

62# Lafayette by Nathan Hale

63# Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

64# We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

65# The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson

66# Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

67# Norton Volume Of English Literature

68# Beowulf by Unknown

69# The General Prologue by Chaucer

70# 20/20 by Linda Brewer

71# Always in Spanish by Agosim

72# The First Day by Edward P. Jones

73# Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

74# Writing Fiction by Burroway

75# Murderers by Leonard Michaels

76# Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases by Lars Gustaffson

77# Cathedral by Raymond Carver

78# A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley

79# Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov

80# The Lives of the Dead by Tim O’Brien

81# Head, Heart by Lydia Davis

82# Richard Cody by Edwin Arlington Robinson

83# “Out- Out-“ by Robert Frost

84# The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy

85# I wandered lonely as a cloud by William Wordsworth

86# Poem by Frank O’Hara

87# On being brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley

88# On her loving two equally by Aphra Behn

89# Because you asked about the line between Prose and Poetry by Howard Nemerov

90# Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish

91# Ars Poetica? By Czeslaw Milosz

92# Ars Poetica #100: I believe by Elizabeth Alexander

93# Poetry by Marianne Moode

94# “Poetry makes nothing happen”? By Julia Alvarez

95# Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

96# In Memory Of W.B. Yates by W. H. Auden

97# The kind of man I am at the DMV by Stacey Waite

98# The Changeling by Judith Oritez Carer

99# Going to war by Richard Lovelace

100# To the Ladies by Mary, Lady Chudleigh

101# Exchanging Hats by Elizabeth Bishop

102# History Of Ireland Volume 1 by Lecky X

103# A Modern History of Ireland by E. Norman X

104# The Tempest by William Shakespeare

105# Gender by Lisa Wade & Myra Marx Ferree

106# Trifles by Susan Glaspell

107# The Shroud by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

108# King of the Bingo Game by Ralph Ellison

109# Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

110# Fences by August Wilson

111# Where are you going, where have you been? By Joyce Carol Oates

112# Daddy by Sylvia Plath

113# What is our life? By Walter Raleigh

114# May I compare thee to a midsummer day? By William Shakespeare

115# The love song of J. Alfred Prufruock by T. S. Eliot

116# À unr passante by Charles Baudelaire

117# In a station of the metro by Ezra Pound

118# The Fog by Carl Sandburg

119# The Yellow Fog by T.S. Eliot

120# On first looking into Chapman’s Homer by John Keats

121# the Road Not Taken by Robert Frisr

122# Paradise Lost  Book 1 & 10 by John Milton X

123# The Victory Lap by George Saunders

124# The Tempest by William Shakespeare

125# The Vanity Of Human Wishes by Samuel Johnson

126# Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

127# When to Her Lute Corinna Sings by Thomas Campion

128# Sir Patrick Spens by Anonymous

129# Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall

130# A Prayer, Living and Dying by Augustus Montague Toplady

131# Homage to the Empress of the Blues by Robert Hayden

132# The Times They Are A-Changin’ *

133# Listening to Bob Dylan, 2005!by Linda Pastan

134# Hip Hop by Mos Deff

135# Elvis in the Inner City by Jose B. Gonzalez

136# Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost*

137# Terza Roma by Richard Wilbur

138# Stanza from The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats

139# Stanza from His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

140# Stanza from Sound and Sense by Alexander’s Pope

141# Stanza from The Word Plum by Helen Chasin

142# Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

143# Myth by Natasha Trethewey

144# Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop

145# Sestina: Like by A.E. Stallings

146# l)a by E.E Cummings

147# Buffalo Bill by E.E Cummings

148# Easter Wings by George Herbert

149# Women by May Swenson

150# Upon the breeze she spread her golden hair by Franceso Petrarch

151# My lady’s presence makes the roses red by Henry Constance

152# My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare

153# Not marble, nor the gilded monuments by William Shakespeare

154# Let me no to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare

155# When I consider how my light is spent by John Milton

156# Nuns Fret Not by William Wordsworth

157# The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth

158# Do I love thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

159# In an Artist’s Studio by Christina Rossetti

160# What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why by Edna St. Vincent Millay

161# Women have loved before as I love now by Edna St. Vincent Millay

162# I, being born a woman and distressed by Edna St. Vincent Millay

163# I will put Chaos in fourteen lines by Edna St. Vincent Millay

164# First Fight. Then Fiddle by Gwendolyn Brooks

165# In the Park by Gwen Harwood

166# Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley by June Jordan

167# Sonnet by Billy Collins

168# Dim Lights by Harryette Mullen

169# Redefininy Realmess by Janet Mock

170# Lusus Naturae by Margaret Atwood

171# The House Of Asterion by Jorge Luis Borges

172# Death Fuge by Michael Hamburger

173# Clifford’s Place by Jamel Bickerly

174# We are seven by William Wordsworth

175# Lines written in early spring by William Wordsworth

176# Expostulation and Reply by William Wordsworth

177# The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth

178# Lines by William Wordsworth

179# Recitatif by Toni Morrison

180# Volar by Judith Ortiz Cofer

181# The Management Of Grief by Bharati Mukherjee

182# Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

183# Jesus Saves by David Sedaris

184# Disabled by Wilfred Owen

185# My Father’s Garden by David Wagoner

186# Practicing by Marie Howe

187# O my pa-pa by Bob Hicok

189# Mr. T- by Terrance Hayes

190# Late Aubade by James Richardson

191# Carp Poem by Terrance Hayes

192# Pilgrimage by Natasha Trethewey

193# Tu Do Street by Yuaef Lomunyakaa

194# Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich

195# Elena by Pat Mora

196# Gentle Communion by Pat Mora

197# Mothers & Daughters by Pat Mora

198# La Migra by Pat Mora

199# Ode to Adobe by Pat Mora

200# Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy

201# The Silken Tent by Robert Frost

202# Metaphors by Sylvia Plath

203# The Vine by James Thomsen

204# Questions by May Swenson

205# A Just Man by Attila József

206# the norton anthology of world literature

207# Pan’s Labyrinth by Gullernio de Toro and Cornelia Funke Xw

208# The prince and the dressmaker by Jen Wang

209# Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

210# The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Million Pound Note, or Man with a Million

Million Pound Note, or Man with a Million

DATELINE:  My Fair Laddie?

Col. Pickering Meets Atticus Finch.

If you are looking for John Beresford Tipton to be handing out checks for a million smackeroos, this forgotten movie is way beyond your expectation. It’s actually a Mark Twain story written in 1893, one of his last ‘Americans abroad’ tales.

Here the American need not do much to blow away the fawning British aristocracy, in love with…