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WITH MY HEART IN MY MOUTH-Duncan Norton-Taylor-Coward-McCann...
...Noel Coward, on a morale-building tour of South Africa, nettled Afrikaner Nationalist Politico Paul Sauer by his imperial arrival in Cape Town. Egg-bald Sauer took the teakwood floor of the House of Assembly to fume: "The Governor of our sister state [Southern Rhodesia's Sir Evelyn Baring] traveled in a small coupe compartment but the crooner (a crooner is someone who sings as if something were wrong with his throat) came in a special coach. Have we lost our balance to such an extent that we make heroes of film actors and music-hall luminaries...
...sense, every novel creates a little world of its own. In that sense The Lost Weekend is a world inhabited by only one soul, and that one damned. The story tells of five days in the life of Don Birnam, a clever coward who is drinking himself to death...
...opening night, Mike Todd, as much a man of the theatre as Noel Coward or George M. Cohan, seemed intent on finding that elusive something that will turn a rambling Hayride into a non-stop express for Broadway's Hall of Fame. Condensation and a half-hour's worth of sock comedy material should do the trick...
...Noel Coward, visiting Manhattan on his way to entertain South African military hospitals, was asked about a rumor of his engagement to Marina, Britain's beauteous, widowed Duchess of Kent (who was down with flu last week, like many of her countrymen-see p. 44). In clipped syllables he clipped the rumor: "Utterly idiotic...