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Last week theaters were open until ten, packing their houses with Chu Chin Chow,* Hello, America, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, the Russian opera and ballet-altogether ten musical shows, six plays. Patrons could go home to clean, comfortable shelters or into tubes accom modating 20 millions. Cabbies were thankful for a sixpence. Hotel lounges brightened at the reappearance of formal gowns, mink and ermine wraps. The Queen and Princesses Christmas-shopped at Fortnum & Mason's. The emu was content...
...first Noel Coward show to come to America in almost five years, "Blithe Spirit" can only increase the already fabulous reputation of its author. He has long since reached the status of master-craftsman and his latest play is of the best in the art of comedy. Its story is unbelievably impossible, but it is so deftly handled that it seems as though it might happen to any one of us if we were to dabble in the occult. To tell the story would be a sin against your enjoyment of the play so the rest of this review will...
...portrayal of the elderly, but energetic, medium whose series of trances raise hob with the spiritual world. Leorora Corbett, as the product of one of these trances, plays the blithe spirit to perfection. The rest are also swell, even down to the maid, whose small part is a true Coward...
...most popular, but by all odds the smartest of the lot is a song satirizing superannuated officers of Britain's Home Guard, which brilliantined Bard Noel Coward wrote and has been plugging since his return from the U.S. Title: Could You Please Oblige Us With a Bren...
Noted Psychiatrist Hugh Crichton-Miller did not consider this man a coward but a victim of anxiety neurosis. In the British Lancet last week he reported that the man had a father who beat his wife & children. (Said the patient: " 'e took a great 'obby in knockin' mother about.") In World War I, the patient had a chance to "retaliate" against his savage father by shooting at Germans. But in an air raid he is helpless, there is no one he can attack. Other troubles helped to break down his morale: 1) his wife; 2) infected teeth...