Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's Communist Daily Worker advertises itself as the only paper in town owned by its subscribers. As "a regular subscriber . . . and therefore a part owner," Major T.V.H. Beamish, a young Tory M.P., lodged a complaint. Why hadn't the Worker invited him to its pro-Soviet "Conference for World Peace" in July? The flustered Worker replied last week: "An invitation will be issued to the Conservative Party, although its leaders can hardly be regarded as the upholders of a peace policy." Subscriber Beamish, it added, would be invited...
...conference been worth holding? Many an editor thought not. Addressing the annual luncheon of the Associated Press, lean Lord Rothermere, publisher of the London super-Tory Daily Mail, complained:* "We have now in Geneva gratuitously provided a platform [where] the enemies of freedom may pour out their torrents of dialectical abuse, wasting the time and wearing the patience of all men of good will...
Chinese Nests. James was often the butt of smart young London intellectuals in the years before World War I. Everything about Henry James made him an easy target for their wit-particularly his resolute love of England in the face of the English stories that were told about him and the jokes that were played...
Something was left out of the account, however. It is easy to imagine the Henry James so pictured as a mildly comic figure in London drawing rooms, but it is impossible to imagine such an individual writing The Beast in the Jungle or The Altar of the Dead. Author Nowell-Smith has traced through their mutations several of the famous inane or incredibly affected remarks attributed to James, by various writers, pointing to an unmistakable conclusion: they were apocryphal. James was a character. Anecdotes were attributed to him, the way jokes about monosyllabic New Englanders were attributed to Calvin Coolidge...
Mishaps & Misgivings. The most obscure part of The Legend of the Master is the celebrated booing from the stage at the opening night of James's play, Guy Domville. It seems to have been a fairly good play; in 1930 (35 years later), the London Times called it "that beautiful, harshly treated play . . ." The producer of Guy Domville was sanguine, though James, with his usual misgivings stayed away opening night. Instead, he went to the Haymarket and saw Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, which had just opened. James considered Wilde's play crude, bad, clumsy, feeble...