Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 62

The Editors Guest Book 

Photos by Baron and Lida Moser

· In Gamesmanship and Lifemanship, Stephen Potter evolved his own ingenious system of satire which he now applies for the Bazaar to some ticklish points of Anglo-American relations (page 116). Though he is regarded as one of the funniest men in England for his spoofing of modern manners and snobbery, his activities as a man of letters have not been limited to comedy. He is head of the literature and poetry programs on the BBC, has published a novel, studies of D. H. Lawrence and Coleridge, and The Muse in Chains, a funny but fundamentally serious expose of the scholars who have been beating English literature into a pulp through the years. His wife is the English painter Mary Potter. 

· Rowland Emett, whose trademarks as a cartoonist are improbable railroads and hilariously probable Englishmen, contributes some new drawings of his beloved engine, Nellie, on pages 118 and 119. Until 1939 Mr. Emett worked for an English advertising agency. During the war the Emetts found themselves in charge of many nephews and nieces evacuated to their four-hundred year old house in Cornwall, and they collaborated on children's stories which he illustrated. Later he sent some of the drawings to Punch and has been one of their most invaluable contributors ever since. During the war he was a designer of airplane parts; he has also found praise as an eminent landscape painter. Mr. Emett writes of himself that he is fortyish and likes railways of the more infrequent kind. He is an authority on Waiting Room Tea. He also firmly believes that the Horse will never supplant steam. 

· Wright Morris is a Nebraska-born novelist who has examined the grass roots of America both as writer and photographer. "The Sound Tape" on page 125 is his third Bazaar story, all account of suburban tragedy that is as American as a commuters' train. Between books and stories-his new novel Man and Boy will be published by Alfred A. Knopf this month-Mr. Morris built himself a new house recently in Merion, Pennsylvania. 

· Bill Brandt is best known for his dark and brooding photographs of the places and faces of London-he is one of the few photographers alive who doesn't crave eternal sunshine, a preference easily satisfied by the vagaries of English weather. But he has also ranged throughout the British Isles for picture stories like his "Literary England," which begins on page 112.  A master of poetic form and atmosphere in his portraits and landscapes, Mr. Brandt has photographed many of the literary greats of England for the Bazaar-among them, E. M. Forster, Max Beerbohm and Norman Douglas.