British literary figures
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:38 pm
Noël Coward, 1937
He spent a fortune on suits (Anderson & Sheppard) and seemed to favour loud tweeds.
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Re: British literary figures
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 6:52 pm
Evelyn Waugh:
He spent a fortune on suits (Anderson & Sheppard) and seemed to favour loud tweeds.
He spent a fortune on suits (Anderson & Sheppard) and seemed to favour loud tweeds.
Re: British literary figures
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:06 pm
More:
which could also go in the "Great smokers" thread.
which could also go in the "Great smokers" thread.
Re: British literary figures
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 8:18 pm
FiS - Please could you put the Waugh cigar photograph in the Great Smokers' thread?
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Re: British literary figures
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:51 pm
Re: British literary figures
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:04 am
shredder wrote:Noël Coward...
Re: British literary figures
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:56 am
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. 
Re: British literary figures
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:24 am
Polymath: playwright; songwriter; diarist; director; producer; actor on stage and screen and of course, great smoker... ooo000OOO
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Re: British literary figures
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:51 am
And, of course, singer. ...But Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun!
Re: British literary figures
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 12:53 pm
Re: British literary figures
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:35 pm
John Betjeman
Re: British literary figures
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:53 pm
A few more of Sir Noël:
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Re: British literary figures
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:34 pm
...which statue in St. Pancras station, which he saved from destruction, shows him with untied shoe laces. I think his daughter insisted on it.
Re: British literary figures
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:03 am
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.
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Re: British literary figures
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:09 pm
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.