The Archive · 1937

A Gay Book

carte W. ime ce_Aomeerunts oF A Caoavour This is a gay book of some 200 pages, iMustrated with a number of clever caricatures by the author, who {sas able an artist as he Is a racon-our, 'Ten years ago he left England to work his passage round the world, only to be attracted by the lure of the French Riviera, where he linger ed for some time.' He made friends with millionaires and paupers, kings and commoners, and lived a care free life, dining sometimes with some millionaire on board the latter's Iuxurious yacht, "and then going ashore to spend the night in a tram= way shelter. As the editor of an Engish society paper at Nice, he rubbed shoulders with a large number of interesting people, including O'Connor, Frank' Harris, Will Evans, King Carol, King Gustav, and George Bernard Shaw. He caricatured Shaw. who was pleased but critical and submitted his own version; both ap~ pear in this book. The bulk of his book is made up of his reminiscences of the various people he encountered; his tales, like his cartoons, are always vivid, Mustrative, often pungent. but ever kind rca.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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