New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Ms. Asbury covered hard news in an era when most of her female colleagues were consigned to writing about white-gloved society luncheons.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Venerable New York Times reporter Edith Evans Asbury wrote in 1955 of the trials of the aged, a prescient reminder of how little has changed.
Brooklyn Heights Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
The New York Times published a very nice obituary on Friday for Edith Evans Asbury, who died last week at her Greenwich Village home. Asbury’s career spanned six decades, and brought her face-to-face with some of the most influential people of the 20th century. It is as a relative footnote, then, that we mention a [...]
montreal city weblog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
It must be the zeitgeist: if you're missing the current National Theatre School production of The Importance of Being Earnest you can catch the McGill production of the same play next month instead. (Failing which, just screen the old Michael Redgrave-Edith Evans version from 1952 , a perfect camp confection.)
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
Parkinson has been asked over and over again who were his best interviewees, and tends to cite a list which runs from Salvation Army stalwart Catherine Bramwell-Booth to Les Dawson, Dame Edith Evans to Billy Connolly, pianist Arthur Rubinstein to Tommy Cooper.But asked for the most remarkable human being he ever encountered, there is only one name - Muhammad Ali, with whom the talk show...
