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...Noel Coward's Hay Fever is probably also funny. Opens tonight at 8 in the Kirkland House JCR; this weekend and next...
...plays were produced in the fall and winter of 1939, one of which was certainly ambitious, and the other meant to be taken seriously. The ambitious play was produced by the Harvard Dramatic Club at Sanders Theatre. It was an original play with music on the model of Coward's Cavalcade, called Too Late to Laugh. It was about rich and poor in New York City and it featured a cast of 150. But the season was most notably redeemed by the Harvard Student Union Drama Committee's production of Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead, a serious play about...
...part of a set of three short plays in which Coward starred in London in 1966. The curtain-raiser, Come into the Garden, Maud, is a fast five-finger exercise about a middle-aged American millionaire in Europe and his vile, blue-haired wife, whose hobby is collecting titled Europeans. With a witty tenderness, Coward has the amiable golfing millionaire, clad in Hush Puppies and a loud sport jacket, fall in love with a minor Italian princess and abandon his harpy wife. The talk is frequently funny: the husband dismisses one of his wife's friends as being...
...second play has an uncharacteristic darkness. Sir Hugo Latymer is a famous old British writer with a talent for elegant malice. A Song at Twilight may have been as close as Coward came to autobiography-although Latymer bears a resemblance to Somerset Maugham. While Latymer and his German wife-secretary are at a Swiss hotel, an actress whom he loved in his youth and denigrated in his memoirs appears for a sudden reunion. They share caviar and steak. Eventually, the former mistress reveals that she possesses the letters Hugo once wrote to a homosexual lover he had always concealed...
...sounds a bit too much like George Burns, but his Hugo is a masterpiece of foxy pomposity. Best of all is Jessica Tandy, first as the harridan in Maud and then as the great man's dry, abused wife. She endows the woman with an odd gallantry that Coward himself may have possessed...