Coup de Guinness
Robert Morley, 5 December 1985
Blessings in Disguise
by Alec Guinness.
Hamish Hamilton, 238 pp., £9.95, October 1985,0 241 11681 3 Show More
by Alec Guinness.
Hamish Hamilton, 238 pp., £9.95, October 1985,
“... on the tight rope before the Tsar. A visit to the Coliseum gave him his first glimpse of Nellie Wallace. Afterwards he insisted on foregoing the ice-cream proffered by his hostess, to spend the money instead on flowers which he left at the stage door. He got the ice-cream as well, however, and spent a month in bed afterwards and was fairly ill on and off ... ”