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Last week the season reached its limou-zenith: Cafe Society's favorite performer, Beatrice Lillie, headlined a revue, Set to Music, by Cafe Society's pet playwright, Noel Coward. Autograph fiends were in Heaven, pressed together as close as the cards in a sealed deck. A battery of photographers flashed their bulbs as into the Music Box streamed the John Barrymores, Prince Serge Obolensky, Margo, Tallulah Bankhead, Major Bowes, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Hope Hampton, Lady Castlerosse, Lucius Beebe, many another...
Other assorted intimates are Winston Churchill, Noel Coward, Novelist Rebecca West. Best U. S. friend is Wall Street Plunger Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, who met Beaverbrook in 1930 when he sued him for libel.* Ben Smith sells the Beaver U. S. airplanes, talks to him several times a month on the transatlantic telephone and consults him on his own British publishing venture, Cavalcade, a TiMElike news magazine...
Arriving in Manhattan to watch rehearsals of his new revue, Set to Music, brilliantine Author-Actor Noel Coward insisted: "I really never wrote an epigram in my life . . . only the crack dirty...
...NOISE OF THEIR WINGS-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann...
...Fabulous Invalid (by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman; produced by Sam H. Harris) is picture-postcard history of the U. S. theatre, as Noel Coward's Cavalcade was of modern Britain. For framework, Playwrights Kaufman & Hart have told the story of a particular Manhattan playhouse called the Alexandria Theatre, and for theme they have shown that the theatre, a fabulous invalid frequently on the point of dying, somehow never quite dies...