Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving in Manhattan, Playwright-Actor Noel Coward appeared to be in a grave, no-nonsense mood befitting his years (50 this week). Undismayed that his last three plays have been failures in London, he told the New York Times: "I shall write new comedies, for I have a great wit and I am a gifted man as well as being a very hard worker...
...bottle of Scotch. A mosquito netting kept off the vicious flies, and as they talked, the star-studded African twilight fell and native drums kept up an insistent rhythm. Being wealthy and intense young New York intellectuals, Kit and Port Moresby glibly fell into lingo so appropriate that Noel Coward might have written it in a fit of melancholia...
...three sinners are a coward, a lesbian, and a nymphomaniacal infanticide. It's a rich enough combination for any dramatist to work with, and Mr. Sartre, fortunately, does not exploit the sensational aspects of his characters. In fact, the three people are not in Hell for being a coward, a Lesbian, or a nymphomaniac...
...time, thereby making some of them unintelligible. Moreover, her interpretation of the lesbian is so rigidly mannish as to become a caricature. Miss O'Connel is pleasing to gaze upon and believable as the heartless woman. Mr. Franklin brings an unusually fine voice to the role of the coward, and gives a good performance...
This is not a book which lends itself to criticism, for it is made from well-written, timely, lively copy. It is, of course, limited by its subject matter--it only covers war, politics, religion, medicine, death, birth, love, hate, courage, coward-ice, comedy, and tragedy...