British literary figures

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Noël Coward, 1937

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Evelyn Waugh:







He spent a fortune on suits (Anderson & Sheppard) and seemed to favour loud tweeds.

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More:



which could also go in the "Great smokers" thread.

[storeynicholas]

FiS - Please could you put the Waugh cigar photograph in the Great Smokers' thread?
NJS

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Noël Coward...

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Marcelo, I admit wondering whether Sir Noël should be in the 'stage and screen' thread. However, I believe he considered himself first and foremost a playwright albeit he often wrote plays with himself in mind as the leading man.

[storeynicholas]

Polymath: playwright; songwriter; diarist; director; producer; actor on stage and screen and of course, great smoker... ooo000OOO
NJS

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And, of course, singer. ...But Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun!

[marcelo]

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John Betjeman

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A few more of Sir Noël:
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John Betjeman

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...which statue in St. Pancras station, which he saved from destruction, shows him with untied shoe laces. I think his daughter insisted on it.

[storeynicholas]

The world needs more Betjemans; not just for the poetry but the conservation of great buildings. I have not seen this statue but it is certainly good to know that thye spirit of commemoration lives on so splendidly.
NJS

[JRLT]

I haven't seen it either, but hope it's better than the awful giant kissing couple also at St. Pancras. London has seen a proliferation of public sculpture in recent years, none of which is of very good quality. The new war memorials (Women of WWII in Whitehall, the Battle of Britian freize on the Embankment and the Animals at War (!) group on Park Lane) compare particularly poorly to Jagger's masterpieces.