Other Men's Flowers

Anyone seeking fulfilment as an artist but handicapped by a total lack of talent should study the works of Goswell Frand .

I once rebuked a friend for misquoting the line about the mills of God, but was chastened to find on looking it up that I had quite the wron...

For most of my adult life I have had a tune on the brain. I don’t hum it incessantly, but it is always there, lurking behind my conscious t...

"I don't know what statements these folks have attribulated to me but I sure as hell didn't make them." - George W Bush ...

Here is a selection from an advice list for journalists that circulates in the United States. Its origin is unknown, but the Pulitzer Prize-...

Noel Coward’s memoirs don’t quote some of his best lines, perhaps because they are apocryphal: Now tell me, Mr Coward, is it true that you a...

Review by William Guipe in West End Weekly: When Façade was first performed, Edith Sitwell declaimed her poems through a megaphone from b...

Dear Sirs ARTHUR PRITCHARD In reply to your query, I am happy to confirm that I have been acquainted with the above for more than twenty yea...

Last summer I was invited by some friends to join them on one of their week-end explorations of the Huddersfield sewers. Not very enthusiast...

In 1982 I bought myself a Sinclair Spectrum and was hooked for ever. Years later I discovered that you could actually do quite useful thing...

The quadricentenary of the birth of the poet and dramatist Edmund Crowsely (1604-1643) seems to be passing quite unremarked, even in his nat...

Passing Out Parade: Mons Officer Cadet School, 1952

At one time, I remember, it was all quite simple. You just picked up a packet of cereal or bar of soap, or whatever it was, and if you propo...

My son co-produced The Graduate in the West End a few years ago and when I was checking the net for reviews of the Jerry Hall recast I cam...

It has been reported in the papers once again that, as a publicity stunt, someone is attempting to push a peanut across London with his nose...

Talking of names, I wonder how many people know that Dr Crippen's wife, before being Cora Turner and adopting the stage name Belle Elmor...

While browsing through Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies I came across the details of a "Dignified German character actor in...

We use author and poet rather than authoress and poetess , but until fairly recently it was permissible to distinguish persons who act by...

That was where Somerset Maugham, in his autobiography, placed himself. Perhaps that was a little presumptuous, as was the tribute to him tha...

The photo is of Che Guevara in disguise. It was taken in 1965 when he was preparing to travel outside Cuba incognito to foment revolution i...