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The face of the world: an international scrapbook of people and places

by  Cecil Beaton

Table Of Contents

  • Tale of three cities: London.
  • Tale of three cities: Paris.
  • Literary Louvre: Malraux * Gide * Camus * Cocteau * Louise de Vilmorin * Sartre.
  • Tale of three cities: New York.
  • Some New Yorkers: Charles Addams * Thurber * Ed Murrow * Alistair Cooke * Steinberg.
  • New world writers: Isabel Bolton * Jand and Paul Bowles * Mary McCarthy.
  • Gothic south: Carson McCullers * Eudora Welty * Truman Capote.
  • Charm of travel.
  • Sicilian serenade.
  • Travel album.
  • Homage to the past: springtime in Florence, Bernard Berenson.
  • Homage to the past: tea above Rapallo, Max Beerbohm.
  • Passage to Cambridge: E. M. Forster.
  • Critics choice: Raymond Mortimer * Cyril Connolly * Lionel Trilling * Sir Kenneth Clark * Peter Quennell * Edward Sackville-West.
  • Green thoughts.
  • Flowers for the living.
  • The Thatchers.
  • Orb and sceptre.
  • Coronation-1953: Notes made in the abbey.
  • Isak Dinesen.
  • Siblings: The Sitwells * Stewart and Joseph Alsop * John and James Pope-Hennessy.
  • Satirists: Osbert Lancaster * Evelyn Waugh * Henry Green * Ivy Compton Burnett * Angus Wilson * Nancy Mitford.
  • Westward the Orient: Kabuki dancers * Dr. Suzuki * Arthur Waley.
  • Devil's Instrument.
  • Some favourite photographs.
  • Photogenic and the envious: Grace Kelly.
  • Statesman at home: Sir Winston Churchill.
  • My fair lady.
  • Designing for the theatre.
  • Princes of players: Sir Laurence Olivier * Sir John Gielgud * Ina Claire * Edith Evans * Peggy Ashcroft * Paul Scofield * Alec Guinness * The Lunts * Ethel Barrymore * Ruth Gordon * Katherine Cornell * Laurette Taylor.
  • Designing for the ballet.
  • Some dancers: Karsavina * Lopokova * Ulanova * Fonteyn * Markova * Balanchine * Le Clercq * John Cranko * Frederick Ashton * Ninette de Valois.
  • Changing Venus.
  • Venus unmasked: Audrey Hepburn * Marilyn Monroe.
  • Joan Crawford.
  • Ode to a nightingale: Kathleen Ferrier.
  • Milky way: Marlene Dietrich * Callas * Anna Magnani * Edwige Feuillere * Marlon Brando.
  • Astronomers please note: Anya Linden * Thomas Schippers * Dorothy Tutin * Siobhan McKenna * Mary Ure.
  • The play's the thing: Tennessee Williams * John Osborne * Arthur Miller * William Inge * Christopher Fry * Noel Coward * Sandy Wilson.
  • Theatre critics: Ken Tynan * Walter Kerr and Brooks Atkinson.
  • Three novelists: Graham Green * Aldous Huxley * Somerset Maugham.
  • Oxford Dons: Lord David Cecil * Sir Isaiah Berlin.
  • Rhyme scheme: John Betjeman * W.H. Auden * T.S. Ellieot * Marianne Moore.
  • Trio and tenor: Michael Tippett * Sir William Walton * Benjamin Britten.
  • Canvas and clay: Grahm Sutherland * Augustus John * Kokoschka * Giacometti * Henry Moore * Lucien Freud * Franci Bacon.
  • Giants of the earth: Stravinsky * Picasso.
  • Colin Wilson.
  • Rotation method.
  • Coda-The persistence of living

Subject

Biography / Photographers

Details

Published New York, NY. : John Day, [1957]
Language English
Material 240 p.

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