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Tag Archives: South China Morning Post
New Year’s Roundup
–Discussions of Waugh’s taste in clothing have appeared in two recent blogs. One relates to tweed suits, something Waugh obviously admired and inadvertently promoted. Here is an excerpt from the “Grey Fox” website: The Italian word ‘sprezzatura’ perfectly describes that … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Catholic Herald, Clothes styles, Daily Telegraph, South China Morning Post, Tweed
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The Saga of the Stella Polaris
Waugh readers will know of the cruise ship M/V Stella Polaris as the vessel on which Evelyn Waugh and his first wife traveled on the 1929 cruise that became the subject of his first travel book. This was Labels  published in … Continue reading
Posted in Labels, Newspapers
Tagged South China Morning Post, Stella Polaris
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Scoop Hotel in Addis Reopens
The South China Morning Post has a feature length article about the reopening of the  Taitu Hotel in Addis Ababa. This is written by Ian Gill who made a recent visit. His story opens with this: The ghost of William … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Addis Ababa, Ian Gill, South China Morning Post, Taitu Hotel
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Ethiopia Explicated: Waugh and Wakanda
In an article posted on the news website Taki’s Magazine, journalist and blogger Steve Sailer offers what seems a good summary history of Ethiopia. Perhaps central to his explanation of why an ancient Christian civilization and monarchy survived in the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia, When the Going Was Good
Tagged "Wakanda", Adam Nebbs, Counter-Currents.com, Ethiopia, James J O'Meara, South China Morning Post, Steve Sailer, Taki's Magazine
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Corker and Shumble ReBooted
Simon Parry writing in the South China Morning Post offers a retelling of Waugh’s parody of journalists reset in the jungles of today’s Papua New Guinea. He is hired by an unnamed London Sunday paper to cover the story of … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Benedict Allen, Daily Mail, journalism, Mail on Sunday, Simon Parry, South China Morning Post
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Arnold Bennett Anniversary Remembered
The South China Morning Post has marked the 150th anniversary of novelist and critic Arnold Bennett’s birth. This appears in the paper’s travel column by Adam Nebbs which seems odd until he explains that Bennett wrote two books that took place in London’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Articles, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Arnold Bennett, Savoy Hotel, South China Morning Post
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Travel-Writing Geezers
Yesterday’s South China Morning Post reviews a collection of travel writing by those over 60: To Oldly Go. The reviewer separates the writers into those who find travel wonderful, those who take themselves too seriously and those “who have gradually become world-weary, curmudgeonly … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Labels, Ninety-Two Days, Remote People, When the Going Was Good
Tagged South China Morning Post, To Oldly Go, Travel Writing
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Mrs. Melrose Ape in China
The South China Morning Post recently ran a story by Jason Wordie about the activities in China of the American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson . While best known for her Angelus Temple of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Los Angeles, … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Aimee Semple McPherson, Foursquare Gospel Church, South China Morning Post
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Sharper Sword
The South China Morning Post has published a review of Waugh’s Sword of Honour as part of a three-part retrospective review connected by each subject’s containing a knife in its title.  The other two reviews relate to a 2006 recording by a Swedish rock … Continue reading
Posted in Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged In the Picture, Michael Scott, Roman Polanski, South China Morning Post, The Knife
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