Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With its 1,4671th consecutive performance, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit achieved the longest run of any straight play in London's history. It had to play through months of robombing to overtake Charley's Aunt, the title holder for 50 years; it will have to run more than another year and a half to catch Chu-Chin-Chow, London's (and the world's) longest-running musical-2,238 performances...
...Some have died of layers' cramp, some have been killed by dear little doggies, and some, weary of their concentration camp and disgusting food, have committed suicide by wedging their heads into the wire netting and twisting their own necks. But apart from the few who took the coward's way out, tribute must be paid to those who have carried on. . . . They have produced in four years more than 600 eggs. Of these at least 50 have been eaten by rats or squashed by the darling feet of dear little doggies...
Sacha Guitry, unctuous, prolific Parisian Noel Coward, jailed for suspected collaboration, was given his "provisional freedom." Reason: lack of evidence. In jail, 59-year-old, bon vivant Guitry held a daily salon, accepted flowers, pillows, black-market chocolate, U.S. cigarets from admirers. Upon his release, he entered a clinic to calm his nerves, rebuild his appetite. Said a sour acquaintance: "There's nothing wrong with dear Sacha that flattery won't cure...
...Noel Coward was as unwelcome in Brooklyn as the New York Giants: Brooklynites had discovered that his new book, Middle East Diary (TIME. Nov. 6), made frightened men of Brooklyn soldiers. Wrote Coward: "I was less impressed by . . . mournful little Brooklyn boys ... in tears . . . with nothing worse than a bullet wound in the leg or a fractured...
...Pirate (Goldwyn; RKO) takes shovel-nosed Bob Hope to the bloodiest corners of the Spanish Main in the spirit of unabashed poltroonery that has become his principal stock in trade. From the moment he pokes his head through an introductory title to announce that he plays a coward to the moment when he gazes apprehensively at a gibbet being erected in his honor and murmurs queasily, "Slumber lumber," Hope makes it clear that his gallantry is mighty small-caliber. When his beautiful co-captive (Virginia Mayo) on the pirate ship snatches away the protection of her wide skirt and asks...