Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...married someone else; marrying her, he loved someone else. One almost finds himself sympathizing with poor Alden. This, however, is a pitfall. As one reads deeper into the significance of the picture Miss Bryner is endeavoring to put into real life one realizes that Bennington is a coward. It is, indeed, a strange dilemma he has worked himself into but at the same time it is a highly possible one. The thread of the story is vastly more confused, however, with the death of his wife, his engagement to the woman he thought he loved, and his falling desperately...
Last week, among many notables who applauded Kreutzberg in Manhattan, were German Ambassador and Frau von Prittwitz, Playwright Noel Coward, Actress Beatrice Lillie, Singers Maria Jeritza and Mary Garden, and Mrs. Vincent Astor. They saw a young hairless-headed fellow make swift, strange pictures to music by Chopin, Scott, Wilckens, de Falla, Satie. They saw him clown with Stravinsky and go gibbering mad with Prokofieff. So enthusiastic was Ambassador Prittwitz that he took steps to arrange a recital in Washington. Dancer Kreutzberg and the bright, wispish Georgi will go thence to Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Boston...
...then they caught the coward, Young Hickman was their...
...ANGEL THAT TROUBLED THE WATERS And other Plays-Thornton Wilder-Coward-McCann...
...stars can write their own plays, though Noel Coward in This Year of Grace, Mae West in Diamond Lit and George M. Cohan, in past years, have been able to do so. Jane Cowl remains a better actress than a playwright. The Jealous Moon is so sweet that it excites a mental toothache...