Word: cowardly
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...Coward has wispily but brightly spun out his joke through a whole evening. Blithe Spirit-as sure a hit for Broadway as it is in London-can be aptly tagged with a single word...
Blithe Spirit (by Noel Coward; produced by John C. Wilson). Last spring Noel Coward,* erasing the war from his mind, stole out of bomb-scarred London to a quiet Welsh country house and in five days tossed off an "improbable farce." At the same time, he pulled off a nearly impossible job. One stage ghost was usually a little more than even Shakespeare could handle; Coward has done handsomely with two. One sprightly stage joke usually gives a playwright a good first...
...Noel Coward (Blithe Spirit) was fined $800 and costs of $80 in London for not offering $57,847 in U.S. assets to the British Government. Like George Arliss (TIME, Oct. 6), he pleaded ignorance, said living in the U.S. for six and a half months was unpractical on the $40 allowed...
Liberally sprinkled with Harvard talent, The New England Repertory Company has opened its fourth year in Boston with the production of Noel Coward's "The Vortex" and Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid." While neither play represents its author at his best, both are rendered with the same determined effort and youthful enthusiasm that has won so many friends for the Repertory in the past three years...
...Coward play is a short work, too much lacking in depth of characterization and scope of treatment to resolve successfully the large problem with which it grapples. Yet within this limitation it achieves a certain power and vitality, fully expressed by the Repertory's able cast. Life in the post-war twenties is depicted as a vortex of ever-accelerating tempo which sucks in both young and old, and crushes them in a mad whirl of meaningless activity, devoid of all values, empty of all reality. A climax is reached in the mad piano-playing of young Nicky...