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Vintage Sunday Times Magazine March 19th 1972
Cover: the Changing Face of Cleopatra. Top row, left to right: coin of Cleopatra VII, 50 B.C.; Cleopatra by Guido Reni (detail), Galleria Palatina, Florence; Theda Bara in Cleopatra, 1917. Middle row: drawing of Cleopatra, school of Michelangelo (detail), British Museum; Lily Langtry as Cleopatra, 1890; Evelyn Laye, Alex Fraser in Cleopatra, a musical comedy, 1925. Bottom row: Henry Wilcoxon and Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra, 1934: Cleopatra’s Banquet by Allori (detail), Vecchio Palace, Florence; Vivien Leigh in Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). (Pictures by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum, Scala, National Film Archive, the Mander and Mitchenson Collection, the John Kobal Collection.)
Black is Bored: the dilemma of the working immigrant mother who is to look after her children? A social problem investigated by Lesley Garner; photograph by Snowdon.
The Egyptian Influence: 1. Art and Architecture: as an introduction to the Tutankhamun Exhibition opening at the British Museum this month, the first of a two-part review of Ancient Egypt’s influences on Western design, described by Michael Darby.
The Princess is for Pleasure: a weekend with Princi-pessa Marizina Odescalchi-beauty, party-giver, stock-market player. By Helen Lawrenson; photograph by Duffy.
God’s Little Dice Game: a profile of Jacques Monod, best-selling author, Nobel Prizewinner, scientific theorist, by Tony Osman; photograph by Bruno Barbey.
48 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age
