WHO WAS Eric Maschwitz?
Jun 30, 2021
2 minutes
Eleanor Allen
Eric Maschwitz (1901-1969) was one of the most versatile and influential people in 20th-century British entertainment. I doubt we’ll ever see his like again.
In 1934, under his pseudonym, Holt Marvell, he wrote with those lovely lines ‘A cigarette that bears a lipstick’s traces, An airline ticket to romantic places’.
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