British literary figures

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Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:38 pm

Noël Coward, 1937
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Sun Jan 31, 2010 6:52 pm

Evelyn Waugh:

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He spent a fortune on suits (Anderson & Sheppard) and seemed to favour loud tweeds.
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Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:06 pm

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

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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Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:04 am

shredder wrote:Noël Coward...
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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. :)
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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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Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:51 am

And, of course, singer. ...But Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun!
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Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:35 pm

John Betjeman

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Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:53 pm

A few more of Sir Noël:
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1933
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1943
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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.
storeynicholas

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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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.
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