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...Comics (Macmillan; $5), Artist-Author Colton Waugh, son of the late famed seascaper, Frederick Waugh, has brushed in the history of the funnies' first half-century. An ex-comic-stripper himself (he succeeded Milton Caniff as penman of Dickie Dare), Waugh has done a notable fact-finding job in charting the never-never land that Richard Outcault discovered...
Peacock's short, genially satirical novels established him as one of England's minor novelists. There had been nothing like them before, but there was to be something like them later; Aldous Huxley, Norman Douglas, H. H. ("Saki") Munro and Evelyn Waugh would acknowledge their debt...
...tried to restore the savoir-vivre of the magazine's good old days (TIME, Dec. 16), had given "the wellborn, the rich and the able" a nodding acquaintance, at least with such dressy writers as W. H. Auden, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Ludwig Bemelmans, Alec and Evelyn Waugh, Oliver La Farge...
British Satirist Evelyn Waugh, who went to Hollywood on an eiderdown dream mission, departed for home after seven weeks of good living. By contract, M-G-M had maintained him in luxurious style while they talked about filming his Brideshead Revisited. But the censors wanted to change a script that Waugh liked. So it was no go. He didn't want changes. He really wasn't "keen" now to sell the book to any studio, said...
Hollywood? "It's a place for very, very old people to go and die," said Waugh. Everything is just imitation except the cemeteries. "They are the only real thing ... I spent most of my spare time in the cemetery. I very much enjoyed Forest Lawn. I loved the music. . . ." Now, aglow with the memory of one of California's most sumptuous spectacles, he planned a sort of novelette with a cemetery setting. A poet who flops as a writer for the cinema (British, said Waugh) gets a job in a dog cemetery. He falls for a girl...