Word: isherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British newspapers were also hot on the trail. To check some tales about Burgess' private life, London's Daily Express dispatched its Hollywood reporter to Friend Christopher Isherwood, novelist (Prater Violet) and onetime parlor pink. "Was he a Communist?" mused Isherwood. "Well, like the rest of us, he was very much in favor of the United Front and Red Spain and so forth ... It meant, don't you see, that we were pretty favorable towards Russia ... I mean, it went without saying. But as far as I know, Guy was never a card-carrying party member...
...about South Africa, where he had lived for a while, in a book called The Heartless Land. In 1938 he brought out another collection, Something Wrong. British critics had high praise for both volumes; only the first was published in the U.S., in a small edition. Said Author Christopher Isherwood: "James Stern is, as far as I know, the most unjustly neglected writer of short stories now alive...
Wystan Hugh Auden is a monstrous clever fellow. As an undergraduate at Oxford (1925-28) he was the most precocious of a literary set that included such precocities as Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, Cecil Day Lewis. These lads were esthetes-with-a-difference: instead of snubbing the grown-up world, they lit into it with sardonic and superior howls. At least one of them (Spender) went all the way to Communism before he got his second wind. Auden went even further...
...flowers of the new clump of British poets that blossomed in the '30s. T. S. Eliot became his kindly mentor and publisher; an independent income relieved him of the rigors of earning a living. Six months of the year he shared a house with Novelist Christopher Isherwood in seamy-gay Berlin; at home, he was wined & dined by Virginia Woolf, rubbed shoulders with William Butler Yeats, Aldous and Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell. Some poets might have been stimulated by all this, but Poet Spender kept finding bumblebees in his blossoms. "In the life of action," he noted sadly...
...Theater (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). Christopher Isherwood's Prater Violet...