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Songwriter, actor, dancer, vaudevillian. playwright, Cohan was never equaled-even by Noel Coward-for sheer versatility. But his many talents had a single aim, a showman's aim: to please the crowd. "First think of something to say," his formula ran, "Then say it the way the theatergoer wants to hear it-meaning, of course, that you must lie like the dickens." Of pure Irish stock, he never plugged the wearing of the green-it was always the red, white & blue...
Today even top stars have to agree to a six-month tour with a show after its London run. Noel Coward is on a repertory tour with three of his shows, playing lead in them all: Blithe Spirit; This Happy Breed, the tale of a common man from 1919 to 1939; Present Laughter, a sophisticated comedy...
Blithe Spirit. Noel Coward's gay farce of how a first wife's ghost cooks a second wife's goose (TIME...
...already set, scheduled, or signed for. There will be more vaudeville. There will be comedies by Lindsay & Grouse (the adapters of Life With Father), John Van Druten, Philip Barry (starring Katharine Hepburn), S. N. Behrman (starring Lunt & Fontanne). But Comedy-Writers Kaufman & Hart, Clare Boothe, Rachel Crothers, Noel Coward have nothing announced; nor have Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck, Lillian Hellman, Clifford Odets. Katharine Cornell plans to revive Chekhov's The Three Sisters and Paul Robeson may go to Broadway with Othello (TIME, Aug. 24). Only serious plays definitely set for fall-both deal with...
...mother confirmed it. The bride-to-be, if bride she becomes, is slim, dark-haired, 17-year-old June Morris, who works in a factory canteen. "It doesn't matter to me who he is," she said in a declaration half out of Grimm, half out of Noel Coward. "I can't help his being the son of an earl. I fell in love with Gerald before I knew who he was when...