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...SARACEN'S HEAD (68 pp.)-Osbert Lancaster-Houghton M/ffl/n...
...that he was once a British secret agent, Moscow's Literary Gazette pilloried Author Somerset Maugham as a creature of Wall Street bosses in the "spiritual disarmament of the masses." The paper also took a dim view of Literary Lights T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Edith and Osbert Sitwell as servants of "American cosmopolite expansionism...
...love America and Americans, and anyone who does not like them or appreciate their character is henceforth my enemy," announced British Poet-Novelist Sir Osbert Sitwell, back in England after a lecture visit to the U.S. He had found the American people warmhearted, aware of their responsibilities and impatient of injustice, he said. Another virtue: "The Americans have something which is missing in England today-beautiful manners." Sir Osbert even had a gaudy tribute for New York, "the most beautiful and inspiring of modern creations, the sole heir to Alexandria, Constantinople and Venice." In Pittsburgh, whose smoke she spoofs...
...Osbert Sitwell, the elder brother, (Sacheverell had been left in England) next came on stage, walking with the aid of a cane, and sat down at another microphone. (Mr. Weeks had explained that Sir Osbert had water-on-the-knee.) He was clad merely in tuxedo and looked very prosperous, distinguished, and glowing. (The Sitwells had just returned from Florida, but only the brother showed a tan.) Sir Osbert read some of his poems--character sketches, they are--and proved himself to be an amusing and more lucid poet than his sister...
...Osbert came back for the last time, and read from the preface and conclusion to his auto-biography. Speaking as, "a citizen of the sunset age," he asked for a re-evaluation, through art, or our spiritual values. While the audience applauded, Sir Osbert brought his sister back on, and in a brief speech thanked them for their cordiality "on this, our last, public appearance in America...