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...SCARLET TREE (381 pp.)-Sir Osbert Sitwell-Little, Brown...
Most of these books fell afoul of U.S. obscenity laws. But pirated editions ap peared in the more literate U.S. drawing rooms. Soon, not only a band of hysterical disciples and a handful of choosy intellectuals (T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Osbert Sitwell, Edmund Wilson) regarded Miller as a talented writer with a flair for outrageous humor. Said the sobersided Satur day Review of Literature: Miller is "the largest force lately risen on the horizon of American letters...
...Huddersfield Choir and Liverpool Philharmonic, conducted by the composer; Victor; 10 sides). Composer Walton's barbaric, explosive Old-Testament oratorio (words arranged by Osbert Sitwell) is probably the most important British score in a generation. Performance and recording: excellent...
...famed U.S. Portraitist John Singer Sargent put the whole Sitwell family on canvas. (The picture is now at Renishaw.) "No picture, I am sure," says Sir Osbert, "could have given the artist more trouble, for my father held strong views concerning the relationship of the patron to the painter." Though Sir George rarely mounted a horse, he insisted on being portrayed in a dark grey riding jacket and boots...
...portrait was almost the summation of an epoch. A few months after Sargent finished it, little Osbert heard the village church bells toll for the death of Queen Victoria, and for the "sunset hour of one of the great periodic calms of history." Then he saw his aristocraticelders' lips move in bewilderment. "What shall we do now?" they said...