SECOND BASINFUL
FRED BASON’S 2nd DIARY, edited by L. A. G. Strong; Wingate. English price, 9/6. SOMERSET MAUGHAM and I were walking down the Old Kent Road when suddenly I saw this Myrtle. She made me blush remembering the last
time we met. Mr. Maugham said, "Do you know that girl, Fred?" "A gent never tells, Mr. Maugham," I said, hoping to carry it off. He just smiled in that dreamy, sarcastic way you see in his photos. A ° nice gentleman all: the same, even though a writer, and we laughed and laughed at _ the female impersonator number in Jack Willis’s old-style music hall. Someone in the gods dropped an icecream on my bald patch. I wished I'd kept my hat on. The other day I was buying books over in
Battersea and a man ran out of a house and said, "I’ve got a very rare volume-Mesmer’s Prophecies. Want it?" "Don’t be funny," I said. But I got talking to the poor old blighter; he spoke beautifully, had a real education, Oxford and all that flapdoodle-or Exeter, anyway. He was living with his wife’s daughter, a proper bitch. He could never get any money for fags or beer. In the end I gave him a couple of bob and he broke down and cried, Makes you
think, doesn't it?
David
Hall
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19530529.2.21.3
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 724, 29 May 1953, Page 12
Word count
Tapeke kupu
222SECOND BASINFUL New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 724, 29 May 1953, Page 12
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in