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Tag Archives: Daily Telegraph
Roundup: Eating with Waugh
The Daily Telegraph has a profile of the London fish restaurant Wilton’s on Jermyn Street in St James’s. It is to fish what Rules is to meat, and Waugh is associated with both of them. According to the Telegraph: The … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, London, Sword of Honour
Tagged Architectural Digest, Bellamy's, Daily Telegraph, David Foster Wallace, New English Review, Open Syllabus Project, The Independent, Wilton's
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Weekend Roundup: Waugh in the Book Reviews
The Daily Telegraph reviews a book by Julie Summers entitled Our Uninvited Guests about the wartime use of British country houses to shelter evacuated refugees from the bombed out cities or provide military bases. The review is by Robert Leigh-Pemberton … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged America, Bob Dylan, Daily Telegraph, Margaret Millar, Mark Twain, Ross McDonald, Thomas Merton, Wall Street Journal
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Alec Waugh, Art Collector
A recent article in the Daily Telegraph profiled a little known artist named Cedric Morris (1889-1982) whose paintings seem to be enjoying a renewal of interest. The article in the Telegraph’s “Luxury: Art” column is by Colin Gleadell and explains that … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Newspapers
Tagged Bridport News, Cedric Morris, Daily Telegraph, Philip Mould
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Faringdon Auction Includes Waugh Portrait
Christie’s has announced a sale later this month that will include several items from the interior of Faringdon House, the former residence of Waugh’s friend Lord Berners. Among the items are a number of paintings and drawings by Lord Berners … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Evelyn Waugh, Portraits
Tagged Christie's, Daily Telegraph, Faringdon House, Frederick Etchells, Lord Berners, Sofka Zinovieff
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Dramatist of WWII Yugoslavia Profiled
The Islington Tribune has published a profile of playwright James Hugh Macdonald. He has written a play called Happy Warriors based on the experience of Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill in wartime Yugoslavia. (See previous posts.): James Hugh Macdonald, a … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Theater, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Islington Tribune, James Hugh Macdonald, Maurice Bowra, Plum Sykes
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Henry Green, Enthusiasms, Tammy Faye, and Clarissa
The attempted revival of Henry Green’s works and reputation marches ever onward. The latest contribution is an article by Dominic Green (no likely relationship since Henry’s family name was Yorke) in the New Criterion. Green makes the case that Yorke … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Scoop
Tagged Clarissa Churchill, Daily Telegraph, Dominic Green, Henry Green, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, New Criterion, Spear's magazine, Weekly Standard
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A Handful of Hard Cheese
Michael Deacon writing in the Daily Telegraph finds echoes of Waugh in a recent story. This involves the rescue of TV presenter and explorer Benedict Allen from the jumgles of Papua New Guinea into which he had disappeared. Deacon is: … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Alexandra Jacobs, Daily Telegraph, Michael Deacon, New York Times
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Waugh’s Watering Holes in the News
Several of Waugh’s pre-war venues have been in the papers recently. The Abingdon Arms in Beckley (near Oxford) was frequently visited by Waugh in his student days and thereafter, sometimes accompanied by his friend Alastair Graham. He wrote some of … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Abingdon Arms Beckley, Daily Telegraph, Lygon Arms Broadway, Oxford Mail, Savile Club
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