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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Baltimore Sun Quotes Waugh on Useage
In his Baltimore Sun column entitled “You Don’t Say” (about language, useage, etc.), John McIntyre quotes a paragraph from a letter Evelyn Waugh wrote to Nancy Mitford in which Waugh comments on an article she wrote for Encounter magazine on the … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Baltimore Sun, John McIntyre, Nancy Mitford
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Waugh Introduces New Edition of Greek Poetry
References to Waugh’s novels are used to introduce a review of the first volume of a new edition of The Greek Anthology published by Harvard University Press and The Loeb Library. The review is by Hayden Pelliccia and appears in a recent … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Ronald Knox, The Loved One
Tagged Hayden Pellicia, New York Review of Books, The Greek Anthology
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Review of Auberon Waugh Autobiography Posted
Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture has posted on the internet a 1998 review of Auberon Waugh’s autobiography Will This Do? The magazine is a publication of the Rockford Institute, a think tank promoting the views of the “paleoconservative,” as … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture
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Waugh Echoes in Kevin Kwan Trilogy
Singapore-born novelist Kevin Kwan has just completed a trilogy of comic novels which began with Crazy Rich Asians in 2013. According to the Seattle Times, the trilogy is set among three intergenerational and ultrarich Chinese families and peppered with hilarious … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Crazy Rich People Trilogy, Daily O, Kevin Kwan, Seattle Times, The Metro, Toronto Star, Victoria "Plum" Sykes
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Alec Waugh, War Poet
A weblog called “Behind Their Lines” which specializes in WWI poetry has posted a poem by Alec Waugh entitled “The Other Side”. He wrote the poem in March 1917, so this is now its centenary. The poem was included in … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Anniversaries
Tagged "The Other Side", Erle Stanley Gardner, World War I poetry
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Stephen Fry Film Compared to Waugh
The Daily Mirror in a review of the film adaptation of Stephen Fry’s 1994 novel The Hippopotamus describe it as a “mildly successful hybrid of a film noir detective story and the novels of Evelyn Waugh.” They don’t much like what … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Television, Vile Bodies
Tagged Acorn TV, Anglotopia.net, Artforum, Daily Mirror, Ernst Lubitsch, Stephen Fry
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Waugh and the African Railways
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung published in Munich has a feature story (“Afrika-Express”) by Bernd Doerries about the expansion of the railway networks in East Africa financed by the Chinese. Most recently, this involves the opening of a new line in Kenya from … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Bernd Doerries, East Africa, railways, Sueddeutsche Zeitung
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Waugh Ear Trumpet to be Displayed in Glastonbury
BBC Radio Somerset has interviewed the director of the South West Heritage Trust which recently acquired one of Evelyn Waugh’s ear trumpets. This is Tom Mayberry who is interviewed by Radio Somerset’s Charlie Taylor. Mayberry explains that the ear trumpet is intended to … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio Somerset, Church of St Edward the Confessor Kempley, ear trumpet, Hereford Times, Lygon family, Somerset Rural Life Museum, South West Heritage Trust, Tom Mayberry
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Betjeman Play in West End
The one-man play with Edward Fox portraying John Betjeman (“Sand in the Sandwiches”) opened its brief West End performance earlier this week at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. The play premiered earlier this year in Oxford. See previous post. It is reviewed … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One, Theater
Tagged Guardian, John Betjeman, Out magazine, Sunday Express, Turner Classic Films
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