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...rewarded 702 Britons for their services to the Crown, produced only one surprise: no peerages to Laborites. Elevated to the Order of the British Empire: veteran (64) Thriller Spinner Agatha (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) Christie; famed Sadler's Wells Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, 36; ailing, highbrow Author Sir Osbert (Wreck at Tidesend) Sitwell...
...speaker's shoulders, as if these still bore the unhealed scars of a Wyndham Lewis drubbing. To many, the mere mention of Lewis' name evokes a hefty figure, dressed in a broad black hat and sweeping black coat, glaring sternly at humanity through formidable glasses. Sir Osbert Sitwell recalls Lewis sitting at a restaurant table back in 1919. "Remember...
...quietly intent group of people who care about poetry and theatre has come again to the surface of the not so esoteric world. Poets' Theatre brought Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell to read their own work Sunday in Sanders Theater. The names have made headlines and aroused general interest, but for the five-year-old Poets' Theatre they are a small part of a movement that began weakly in 1950 and did not stay that way long...
...Poets' Theatre will present Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell reading their own poetry, Sunday at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theater. This is the Sitwells' first appearance in Cambridge...
...Much as she likes elegance, she is addicted to occasional forays into London's East End, where she often chats with prostitutes and barrow boys. On these excursions, her friends say, she creates for herself an underworld dream life. She also follows murder cases avidly, recently dragged brother Osbert to the scene of the grisly Christie murders and kept him there for hours. The critics now pay her court, but she is still bitter about them. Once she sent a stuffed owl to a critic she thought was too stuffy...