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...Soho Café. Yet he was never a stranger to London. The Soho restaurant called the Eiffel Tower knew his booming voice and august figure as well as it knew his colorful companions: Max Beerbohm, Tallulah Bankhead, Wyndham Lewis, the young Prince of Wales. In Ireland he spent his time with W. B. Yeats; in Paris he sought out James Joyce; in London he came to know Shaw, Wilde and Aldous Huxley. To women he was irresistible. It was said the female sitters would sometimes strip off their clothes without John's either asking or wanting them to. When...
...peculiarly notable career with but a single succes d'estime, has now tried his hand at the light novel. And he has chosen to cast his lot with the unfortunate and tiresome Angries. No longer the precocious collater of quips and cranks, Mr. Wilson now seeks to chronicle the Soho adventures of an ingenu wanderer with little money and less intelligence. The adventures include a noisy actor, a shabby count, a fiery painter (who seems to be some sort of salvation figure) and a pretty girl (who couldn't really save anybody from anything...
ADRIFT IN SOHO (229 pp.]-Colin Wilson-Houqhfon Mifflin...
Bourgeois Animal. Wilson's Adrift in Soho is about Harry, who felt like "a trapped animal" in his Midlands town. So he came to London with about ?25, a cardboard suitcase and a haversack full of books to practice his trade of being a poet and philosopher. Almost immediately he meets his mate, a New Zealander named Doreen, and his mentor, a sometime actor named Charles Compton Street. Charles introduces him to the fine art of living without working-cadging food and drink, stealing an occasional rare book, sleeping on suburban trains or on somebody's floor. Charles...
...long ago, Jazz Pianist Calvin Jackson was asked by a couple of well-oiled ring-siders what he was trying to say. Take Laura, said Calvin: "Musically you can put her anyplace you want to-in the woods, at sea, in a bar, in the Village or in Soho. I'll show you." When he had played through Laura once, one ringsider turned to the other. "By damn," he said, "she's in the woods...