Word: cowardly
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Sail Away (Original Broadway Cast; Capitol). Noel Coward's strenuously hedonistic lines sound a little weary here, and his wit is Princeton Tiger '24 ("If you want to play strip poke /With the girls in cabin B/ Come to me, dear boys, come to me." But in a couple of songs (Where Shall I Find Him?, Later than Spring) Elaine Stritch whoops it up as if she were really riding a winner...
Died. John Chapman Wilson, 62, canny, urbane theatrical producer and director, a onetime bond salesman who talked Noel Coward into making him his business manager, went on to direct the Coward hit Blithe Spirit, plus a clutch of other successful Broadway shows, including A Connecticut Yankee and Kiss Me Kate; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...PASSION IN ROME (352 pp.)-Morley Callaghan-Coward-McCann...
...example, in the first half of the movie, everyone immediately gets the point that the imposter Bardone (de Sica) is a criminal parasite and a coward. The point is drummed out in several scenes which do not explore Bardone's character so much as they blur by repetition the first impression of him. One episode, in which Bardone accepts money from a girl he had deserted, is irrelevant and should have been cut completely...
...compounded by the fact that Rossellini and his three script writers do not seem sure whether Bardone is more to be pitied or more to be censured. Rather than mingling in cowardice and loneliness in one man at one time. Rossellini and his writers inconsistently portray first a coward, then a pathetic outsider, then a coward again with the result that the parts are clear but the whole...