Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brattle Hall puts on blue jeans and a straw hat Monday evening when Louise Falk and John Huntington open the 1945 Cambridge Summer Theatre season with Noel Coward's comedy, "Blithe Spirit," starring Elissa Landi. The play, which ran on Broadway for so long, is scheduled to run for one week, through Saturday evening...
...Ahead (Two Cities-20th Century-Fox), is a soft of dry-land equivalent of Noel Coward's famed In Which We Serve, tells with considerable force one of the real stories of modern war. The story: how a shuffling motley of unwilling conscripts, drawn from every walk of life, are transformed into proficient and brave infantrymen...
...Better be a coward five minutes than a dead man all your life," runs the old song, Slattery's Mounted Foot. "Better a few weeks ill than all your life dead," runs the heading of a German propaganda leaflet recently dropped on British soldiers in Italy. The text, as reprinted in the British Lancet, tells how to get out of fighting by faking illness...
...Earl of Gillenwater, who used to spend his time in drawing rooms, now is seen only as the heroic pilot of a Wellington or skipper of the Marlborough. The metamorphosis of Noel Coward left a big pair of shoes unfilled until Clive Brook stepped...
...Approval," in which Brook appears as producer-director-star, presents what could be a credit to multi-talented geniuses Welles, Chaplin, and Coward. Taking up the broken down aristocracy where Coward left off, Brook stars in the role of George, the ninth Duke of Bristol...