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...hung a Dictaphone near Actor John Barrymore when he was upbraiding his protégée, Elaine Barrie. The playback proved "more censorable than any sequence from a Jane Russell or Anna Magnani movie." The only time Elsa and the countess ever fought came when Elsa invited Noel Coward, whom Dorothy disliked, to a party and later "we both flew at each other like wildcats." But the countess will always be remembered by Elsa as the "great broncobuster of the banal, bathos, pathos and hypocrisy-that makes up what we call modern society." From Manhattan. Eleanor Holm Rose, estranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...Harvard drama seems clear. The HDC has announced Murder in the Cathedral for its third production, and after a seasonal curtain raiser of MacLeish, the Poets' Theatre is launched into Yeats. Evidently this will not be another season featuring the drama of Shakespeare and the wit of Noel Coward...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Play's The Thing | 12/11/1953 | See Source »

This year, for the first time at an opening of Parliament, Elizabeth wore the Imperial State Crown laden with 3,095 jewels,* as she read the speech written for her by Winston Churchill's ministers. A House of Lords gallery packed with such alert first-nighters as Noel Coward agreed that she did her bit with only the faintest touch of nervousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Queen's Wishes | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Lieut. Colonel Harry M. Llewellyn, C.B.E., looks like Alec Guinness, talks like a Noel Coward character and rides a horse as well as Sir Gordon Richards, England's beknighted jockey. In fact, Llewellyn, an old steeplechaser, placed second in England's 1936 Grand National, the annual 4½mile race over the toughest jumping course in the world. At Madison Square Garden last week, over a more sedate series of jumps, Llewellyn and his mount, a handsome, strapping (17 hands)' bay gelding named Foxhunter, were star attractions at the National Horse Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Whammy | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...prosecution: Lydon is "a coward who did not, in everyday language, have the guts to go on in these horrible circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cowardice in Korea | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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