Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MIDDLE EAST DIARY - Noel Coward -Doubleday, Doran...
...famed U.S. headmaster of his generation: the founder of small, ultra-swank Groton School. Endicott Peabody, a living legend at 87, retired from Groton's headmastership in 1940-to a new house just off the campus. Last week he received his first full-length biography, Peabody of Groton (Coward McCann; $5), based in large part on his persistent and prodigious correspondence with his rich and famous alumni, their parents and friends.* The author, himself an old "Grottie," is Headmaster Frank Ashburn of Brooks School (North Andover, Mass...
While the Sun Shines (By Terence Rattigan; produced by Max Gordon) called forth critical comparisons with Noel Coward, P. G. Wodehouse, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Voice of the Turtle. The comparisons, however, were on a basis of genre rather than genius; Playwright Rattigan's sun starts to set after a bright first act. Mixing all-too-familiar elements, While the Sun Shines winds up as both a mongrel and a bit of a museum piece...
...clearly the occasion, and not the play - Ibsen's Peer Gynt - that made tickets scarcer than hen's eggs and fetched everybody from Noel Coward in specs to G.I. William Saroyan. But Lady Colefax's typical suspiration, "If one's friends will put on Peer Gynt, one must see it," changed to enthusiasm as Ibsen's murky poetic drama, in a fresh translation by Norman Ginsbury, took on pace and clarity. When Peer made love to fat, giggling Anitra, the audience whooped. When he was crowned Emperor in a madhouse, everybody got goose pimples. With...
...could have bought in the open market for $50,000. What he bought was Green Dolphin Street, by Britain's lushly lyrical Elizabeth Goudge 13th City of Bells; The Castle on the Hill). It was already the September choice of the Literary Guild. Flushed with good fortune, Publishers Coward-McCann (who got a $25,000 pourboire from Mr. Mayer) promptly prepared to increase the $10,000 they had already earmarked for advertising a book that looked like a sure bestseller...