Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Digging smoothly and relentlessly, the Winthrop House Dramatic Society has examed a play that is more than faintly autobiographical. If you find Noel Coward innocent of the charges for which he was buried i.e., that he was preoccupied with uninteresting and even obnoxious people, and that today he seems as remote from us as, say, General Eisen-hower, you will enjoy the play. Certainly much of last night's audience...
...Coward's boy-girl-boy geometry lesson starts off simply enough, but soon is complicated because it develops that the boys love each other, too. Coward is never gauche and never explicit, but as you can see, this heightens the interest in his study of apparently useless individuals and their diversions. We are diverted from a squalid studio in Paris to a thinly elegant apartment in London to a blatantly elegant one in New York, which proves that Coward knew that useless individuals also could be profitably diverted to the theatre in those three cities, for the purpose of seeing...
...soul will fight on, you coward...
...shade too fatherly, Sheilah implies, to be fully satisfactory as a mate, but he did replace the U-brush with some H's and cured her of saying "Oo-er! Wot an 'at!" After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place for a self-remade girl...
...student body at large guide its next choice. A poll showed that the students favored modern plays over classical ones by 5 to 1, and harbored a definite antipathy to student scripts. As to specific playwrights, the poll yielded the following, in order of preference: Shaw, Shakespeare, O'Neill, Coward, Ibsen, Wilde, Anderson, Odets, Chekhov, and Wilder...