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JOAN SUTHERLAND SINGS NOEL COWARD (London). The Australian prima donna has no chance for operatic fireworks but lights little sparklers from Conversation Piece, Bitter Sweet and three later musicals, while Noel himself makes a veddy charming bow (/'// Follow My Secret Heart). The orchestra is lush; the violins sway with the nostalgic waltzes that are light years away from today's Broadway...
...Walter, at Manhattan's Drake Room, who has patrolled the bar beat for 30 years, is generally considered the dean of cocktail pianists. A sometime composer, he plays novel and harmonically inventive arrangements, numbers among his devotees such celebrities as Noel Coward and Lynda Bird Johnson. Sipping gin and Coca-Cola, he holds forth six nights a week from 6 p.m. until 1 a.m., earns $20,000 a year. He cannot abide sing-along customers, discourages them by "changing keys so often that they become confused." - Ernie Swann, at Detroit's Salamandre room, prides himself on living...
...Vanessa turned down a minor part in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lynn jumped at the chance to play it. In 1963, Olivier took her on at the National Theater, and she found that she could play for pathos (Brecht's Mother Courage) as well as waddle through twaddle (Coward's Hay Fever). Big things were expected of her?but not quite the sort of big things that actually happened...
...bitchy witch, says he. You're a sniveling coward, says she. Oh yeah, says he, mind your lip or I'll button it permanently. Ha!, says she, you're not man enough...
...objection almost acceptable. By and large, Harvard CO's experience no social antagonism because of their stand. One CO who lives off-campus recalls his experience with his next door neighbor who had just returned from Vietnam: "He was a little shocked at first and suspected I was a coward. But after we talked about it for a few months and he began to understand my reasons, he respected my position. In fact, he's not paying his income taxes this year in protest of the war. I think if CO's can just communicate their reasons, people will...