Tony, Ray and the Duchess
Alan Bell, 21 May 1981
A Lonely Business: A Self-Portrait of James Pope-Hennessy
edited by Peter Quennell.
Weidenfeld, 278 pp., £12.50, April 1981,0 297 77918 4 Show More
edited by Peter Quennell.
Weidenfeld, 278 pp., £12.50, April 1981,
“... change the shape of my brain-pan.’ His professionalism shows through, and it is clear that the Noël Coward biography which he had just started at the time of his death would have been something to have looked forward to from a man who could describe Elsa Maxwell as ‘an ugly, vulgar, fusty, noisy woman with a tumbler of whisky screwed into her ... ”