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Married. Leonora Corbett, 34, British actress, willowy ghost of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit; and John Francis Royal, 56, NBC's burly, explosive vice president in charge of international broadcasting; she for the first time, he for the second (his first wife died in January); in Manhattan. She came here from England after nearly a year of driving a mobile canteen through bombed areas, scored a personal triumph in her first U.S. appearance. Her make-up in Blithe Spirit: dead grey, from head to foot...
Among them are the Duke of Kent and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands -Lord Beaverbrook, Publisher of the Daily Express, and Sir Walter Citrine, head of the British Trades Union Council-H. G. Wells, Noel Coward, Brendan Bracken, Lady Astor and many other people high in the official, industrial and intellectual life of the Empire...
...publicity given to Ingersoll as a draft dodger has detracted attention from Marshall Field as a slacker. Field is of age to volunteer. . . . The term to fit him and all hysterical effeminates is coward...
...CASTLE ON THE HILL-Elizabeth Goudge-Coward-McCann ($2.50). This rather touching, mildly mystical story of England-after-Dunkirk transforms England's caste system into one big family of stout-fellas. High point of this social salad-mixing comes when a shy little housekeeper, Miss Brown, proposes to her elderly patrician employer, Charles Birley. No snob, Birley prefers bachelorhood. But Miss Brown's leveling instincts achieve satisfaction in others who need her: two cockney children and a soul-sick refugee violinist whom she selflessly agrees to marry...
...Bartlett's Nasty Quotations, who is this country's greatest argument for mercy killing. Bette Davis, pleasingly different without a neurosis or two to keep her company, plays the role of his long-suffering and fast-talking secretary with sparkle and deftness. And Reginald Gardner is more like Noel Coward than Noel Coward himself...