1st Play Night I went out about 7 o’clock and Boult, Chapman, Low and myself sat together in the Gods where there was a fine squash every inch of room being filled and I had to take a child on … Continue reading
Barrington-Ward has got a Balliol Scholarship. Personally I am delighted but I still think it revolutionary and wrong from the Christ Church point of view. However it’s the blue-ribbon of Scholarships and as a friend I am more than pleased. … Continue reading
The American Ambassador (Mr Whitelaw Reid) has much pleasure in accepting to come to the Play. Lord Wolverhampton (Sir Henry Fowler as was) would have liked to have come but is afraid that as the Education Bill will be on … Continue reading
I was too disgustingly slack to write any more last night and not much seems to have happened today. I am much delighted with Augustine Birrell as a writer (not as a Cabinet Minister!!). He has a most quaint and … Continue reading
It is no good. I tried hard to be ‘a very great seigneur indeed’ tonight but like Rowland Edwards and his philosophy ‘my cheerfulness kept breaking in!’ In other words I had up Sedgwick for being out of bed. He … Continue reading