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...Brown, oldtime burlesque clown from Holgate, Ohio, and Noel Coward, dapper London sophisticate, have two things in common. Both have traveled thousands of miles, singing and gagging their heads off for G.I.s and Tommies from Nome to Karachi; both have now published accounts of their adventures...
...result, is as honestly waterlogged as his eyes, probably more so than most people can take. But when Army psychiatrists followed in the wake of Joe & friends, he says they reported: "The mental condition of our boys [is] 71% improved." Noel's Days. Suave, mauve Noel Coward also sang till his pipes cracked, but he found ample time to comment on life in the Mediterranean and Middle East. Bits of Middle East Diary have the peculiar flavor of "My Day" ("Today I drove into Spain . . . and lunched out-of-doors at a little inn called Miraflores...
...conversation alternated between Spanish and French despite the fact that they could all speak English. . . . However, this all added a touch of cosmopolitan charm . . ."). But most of the book is characteristic Coward...
...Cairo he found the five U.S. Senators (Mead, Brewster, Lodge, Russell, Chandler) who made a round-the-world inspection junket last year. "Why," moaned Coward, "when there are so many millions of delightful Americans . . . should such an uninspiring group of men be sent on an overseas mission? . . . Oh, my God, they were dull...
Recipe for Teeth. Soon Comedian Coward found himself in Syria, surrounded by the "comparatively Free French." There he sang to a huge R.A.F. audience, unaware that the rafters of the hangar were teeming with nesting birds. When Mr. Coward piped up, shrill cries answered him from above. "Just bloody little dickybirds," said the colonel...