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...dinner table would be lucky if it caused a smile. On the other hand, it is light-hearted and emphatic. Spoken by a cultivated young man to a lady with whom he is both in love and angry, it becomes funny. It illustrates the formula for Noel Coward's Private Lives, in which the author made his job easy by arranging his situations so skillfully that almost any gay line, spoken clearly and with enthusiasm, would start a laugh...
...this production, directed by Sidney Franklin, Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery play through the almost actor-proof situations of the comedy with savoir-faire which equals if it does not excel that of their predecessors, Author Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence.* It is a play about two tender-hearted but irascible worldlings who, having divorced each other and remarried, meet again on their second honeymoons. Re-captivated by each other, they scamper away from their new spouses, enjoy a truant honeymoon in an Alpine chalet. By the time the deserted and negligible husband and wife arrive at the chalet, the place...
...talking picture of the stage performance of Private Lives, specially made for the purpose last winter, enabled Actors Shearer and Montgomery to approximate the gestures, tones and actions of Actors Coward and Lawrence...
...Playwright Noel Coward, 32, is reputed currently to enjoy an income of $6,000 per week from his new play Cavalcade in London and various road companies of Private Lives and Bitter Sweet...
...LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER- Thornton Wilder-Yale Press & Coward-McCann...