COCKNEY SPARROW
FRED BASON’S THIRD DIARY; André Deutsch, English price 10/6. OR luv a duck, Fred has slopped another basinful, to use with slight amendment the elegant expression he
himself quotes. For a good few years he has been taken up, become a character, a card, a British institution, on terms of writing acquaintance with a good few authors and celebrities. The field over which he allows himself to wander is extensive. Theatre and literary figures both local and Transatlantic bob up often and are discussed with the impudent Cockney sparrow wit which has made the Diaries popular. The landlady’s wisdom is underlined and there is some wry philandering or wouldbe philandering. He still addresses bodies such as the Professional Women’s Clubs of Great Britain and calls Somerset Maugham by his first name. Having established himself as a Cockney wit, as a slum dweller, and one who makes very small profits
from sales of old books, and to whom most minor luxuries are great treats, he is, of course, condemned to remain $o.
F. J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 870, 6 April 1956, Page 14
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176COCKNEY SPARROW New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 870, 6 April 1956, Page 14
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