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Last week, among many notables who applauded Kreutzberg in Manhattan, were German Ambassador and Frau von Prittwitz, Playwright Noel Coward, Actress Beatrice Lillie, Singers Maria Jeritza and Mary Garden, and Mrs. Vincent Astor. They saw a young hairless-headed fellow make swift, strange pictures to music by Chopin, Scott, Wilckens, de Falla, Satie. They saw him clown with Stravinsky and go gibbering mad with Prokofieff. So enthusiastic was Ambassador Prittwitz that he took steps to arrange a recital in Washington. Dancer Kreutzberg and the bright, wispish Georgi will go thence to Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Kreutzberg | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...then they caught the coward, Young Hickman was their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mail Order Songs | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...ANGEL THAT TROUBLED THE WATERS And other Plays-Thornton Wilder-Coward-McCann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Concentrated Extract | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...stars can write their own plays, though Noel Coward in This Year of Grace, Mae West in Diamond Lit and George M. Cohan, in past years, have been able to do so. Jane Cowl remains a better actress than a playwright. The Jealous Moon is so sweet that it excites a mental toothache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Nonetheless, This Year of Grace is a buoyant revue: a little long, perhaps, Coward a little too ambitious, but it has assuredly presented two song-hits of the immediate future, a dozen superb drolleries, and the unforgettable Lillie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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