Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DEATH PLAYS SOLITAIRE-R. L. Goldman- Coward-McCann ($2). News Publisher Asaph Clume and Reporter Rufus Reed again team up, crack the secret behind the shooting of a criminal lawyer. Tough, but not bogus tough...
...Music. Second-grade Noel Coward, but super Beatrice Lillie (TIME...
...notch but are lifted from previous Coward shows in London. For the rest, except for some nimble lyrics, Set to Music is Coward lazily repeating himself, once or twice turning sentimental with his usual bad taste, or trusting to luck and Lillie...
Last week the season reached its limou-zenith: Cafe Society's favorite performer, Beatrice Lillie, headlined a revue, Set to Music, by Cafe Society's pet playwright, Noel Coward. Autograph fiends were in Heaven, pressed together as close as the cards in a sealed deck. A battery of photographers flashed their bulbs as into the Music Box streamed the John Barrymores, Prince Serge Obolensky, Margo, Tallulah Bankhead, Major Bowes, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Hope Hampton, Lady Castlerosse, Lucius Beebe, many another...
From their pet playwright the glittering audience got only Grade B Coward. One superb, side-splitting burlesque of an English charity pageant is probably the funniest sketch that Coward has ever written. Two of the songs, Mad About the Boy and The Stately Homes of England...