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BLACK MISCHIEF - Evelyn Waugh- Farrar & Rinehart...
What Aldous Huxley was to the generation still anxiously calling itself "young," Evelyn Waugh is becoming to the present. Less serious than Huxley but more religious (he has lately become a Roman Catholic), more scandalously funny but less satirical, he writes less like an insulated Englishman than like a French cosmopolite. Author Waugh recently traveled to Abyssinia, to Ras Tafari's coronation, wrote a disappointingly half-serious book about it (They Were Still Dancing, TIME, Dec. 14). In Black Mischief he returns to the subject of Negro majesty, does it up black & blue in true Waugh style...
...bank from all blame and thus tend to rectify the harm already done. Grew also asked that steps be taken to stop the press campaign against the bank. "Count Uchida replied that an investigation is already under way. ..." To incredulous Japanese, National City's Tokyo Branch Manager Daniel Waugh kept explaining: "We took the pictures for advertising purposes! National City wants to advertise the recent industrial developments in Tokyo. Osaka and Kobe. Don't you understand? Such advertising will be for the good of Japan!" "Overzealous Persons." Understanding not one whit, the semi-official Osaka radio station JOBK...
...their contributions would be brief or palpably second-rate. Occasionally ? as in the case of Donald Ogden Stewart's Rebound and Noel Coward's Private Lives which had already been produced on the stage ? they were comparatively stale. But the names on the cover, names like Alec Waugh. George Jean Nathan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wallace Irwin, were impressive...
Then there this question of literature. There's "Vile Bodies" by Waugh, a book with the real smell of the earth in it. Or was it that Dam sun-like book about china? Amusing stuff, earth. Then there are post-war novels, thrilling they are, every hundred of them. Did Hemingway write "A Farewell to Arms" for nothing? Now there's a question. When America started there were people like Washington, Adams, and Jefferson around. Are they around now? Nope. Still, its pretty exciting...