It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.
About J. Milton Hayes
James Milton Hayes MC (1884, in Ardwick – 1940, in Nice), known as J. Milton Hayes, was an English actor and poet, best known for his 1911 dramatic monologue “The Green Eye of the Yellow God”, much parodied by his contemporary Stanley Holloway and later by The Goon Show. He also wrote and performed many other monologues.
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It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.
British actor and writer
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn’t poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
British actor and writer
Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
British actor and writer