SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 8o
Set by Richard Usborne
"They make a very good dry Martini at the Palace Hotel in Guatemala City . . ." says the " I" character in The Man with a Scar, one of the stories in Here and There by Somerset Maugham. Authors occasionally parody themselves. A prize of £5; which may be divided, is offered for not more than 50 words (each) in which the scene in Guatemala City Is set by any three of the following authors : Rudyard Kipling, Evelyn Waugh, John Buchan, Sapper, Dorn ford Yates, James Thurber, Enid. Blyton, Noel Coward. Peter Fleming, Ernest Hemingway.
Entries must be addressed to the Spectator, 99 Gower Street,: London, W.C.1, in envelopes marked "Competition," and must be received not later than September 5th. Results will be published, in the Spectator of September 14th.
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