Word: cowardly
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Transmigration of the Coward Soul...
Ever since Noel Coward gave up his high society burlesques poking fun at the aristocracy to change from the hilarious "Blithe Spirit" to his war narrative "In Which We Serve," English films that have managed to wend their way across the Atlantic have focussed mainly...
Tonight at 9 o'clock, the Radio Workshop Players will present their third production of the term. "Fumed Oak," by Noel Coward. Miss Barbara Perry, Miss Jane D. Philbin, and Miss Mary D. Sarage, all of Radcliffe, and William E. Sullivan '45 will take the leading roles...
...special show opened with Noel Coward, who got royally booed by the boys from Brooklyn, then conquered even them with Mad Dogs and Englishmen. But it was greying, ingratiating Maurice Chevalier, with his bawdy wisecracks and old U.S. song hits, who pulled the roof down. When the band struck up the same exit-tune the Canteen plays in Manhattan -Good Night, Sweetheart-the boys balked at leaving. They had finally found just what they wanted-something both redolent of Paris and reminiscent of home...
...censor's attention (see Music). Taunted Daily News Critic John Chapman in his review: "License Commissioner Paul Moss last night sponsored a dirty show which had in it bawds, a pimp and a couple of Lesbians." And Columnist Leonard Lyons recalled that Moss once co-produced Noel Coward's This Was a Man, which the Lord Chamberlain banned in England as indecent...