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...kidding of naively melodramatic antifascists comes a few years late, but it still tickles. Thanks to the knowledgeable irony of Producer-Director Ernst Lubitsch, the snob mannerisms of the three classes, which might have been heavy going, become deftly funny. The whimsically dizzy heroine, who leaves her hoofprints in the ferns and her bloomers all over the place, was rather wearing for some readers of Margery Sharp's popular novel; but Jennifer Jones does her proud. Charles Boyer wastes his talents like a gentleman, and Una O'Connor, without a line to her name, is a howl...
Evelyn Waugh is a devout Catholic. He is also a devout esthete and a devout snob. This week, in LIFE, he wrote an open letter to U.S. readers of his best-selling Brideshead Revisited (TIME, Jan. 7), which showed that these three traits are inseparable parts of his fastidious revulsion from the godless, uncivilized age in which he finds himself. He also revealed that-as some critics of Brideshead had sug-rested-his literary motivation is basically religious...
...Snob Value. As it did to all Londoners, the war came to Connolly. A German bomb fell across the street from his office, delaying one issue for weeks. He never did catch up with his schedule. Last week his February issue, on the stands in London, had not yet reached its 500 U.S. subscribers. When the paper shortage pinched Britain in 1941, Horizon all but starved to death. Appeals from such surprising readers as Manhattan's Fiorello LaGuardia convinced the British Government that the magazine should be kept alive. (Last year it lost only ?30 and considered...
What a Change. Igor makes a great play of not being a snob. Sample: "I have just emerged from an air-conditioned suite of the Park Towers, where I was locked for 45 sacred minutes with their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...
...Belton son-&-heir. "There won't be a single gentleman in the Cabinet in five years," groused the Squire. "Well, I do hope my son-in-law and daughters-in-law will be our sort." murmured Mrs. Belton wistfully. "I suppose I'm a perfectly beastly snob," said her pretty daughter Elsa, "but I can't help...