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...further need of him. Broken in spirit, Grandfather Dumas died in 1806, leaving on record the parting words: "Oh! Must a general who, when he was no more than thirty-five, had already been Commander-in-chief of three armies, die at forty, like a coward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three Musketeers | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...WHITE WITCH (439 pp.)-Elizabefh Goudge-Coward-McCann ($4.95). "0 boro Duvel atch' pa leste!" cried Froniga to Yoben-meaning, in Romany, "The great Lord be on you!" Then Froniga "came into his arms with the simplicity of a child." But, as usual, Yoben held his fire. "I am a man to whom the love of woman is forbidden," this stern gypsy tinker had told Froniga, and try as she would to penetrate his enigma with darts from "her long-tailed dark eyes," Yoben was mute and cold as old pewter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Play, Gypsies! | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Dance with Mum. Tommy starred in a film (The Tommy Steele Story), followed such stars as Marlene Dietrich and Noel Coward into London's swank Café de Paris, and told his fans how the posh life felt: "I'm the proudest kid in the world-I've danced with my mum in the Café de Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Piltdown Poppa | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...flutter-brained coquette who being devotedly hetero-sexual, will not yield. This woman's vanity demands the Lesbian as a mirror because there are no mirrors in hell. The coquette, in turn, asks love of the journalist, who only wants to prove to himself that he is not a coward, yet he cannot make love to her with the Lesbian watching and taunting...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: No Exit and This Property Is Condemned | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

Repeating over and over the same joke -it can hardly be termed satire-Nude With Violin can scarcely help growing wearisome. What is worse, the play is at no point notably gay. Actor Coward is by all odds Playwright Coward's greatest asset; and as a special gentleman's gentleman-or rascal's rascal-he is perfectly placed for the goofy badinage, studied insolences, posh billingsgate and pecks that leave tooth marks which are Coward's forte. And when, sporting a New Look, he is very suavely going through all the old motions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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