Word: cowards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coward discussed plays and players, novels and novelists, poetry and poets, in his characteristically crisp British accent, until there were but five minutes left before the rising of the curtain...
Twenty minutes before the curtain rose last Saturday night on his current production "Tonight at 8.30", Noel Coward, arch-wit and epigrammatist of the English and American stages, was made an honorary member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Dramatic Club, backstage at the National Theatre in New York...
...Noel Coward is not so penetrating a comedian or author as Sacha Guitry, but Mr. Coward has the good fortune to write and act in English, the language which pays best. He is not nearly so funny a playwright as George S. Kaufman, but he is more versatile, more productive, does all his own work. He never brought to his upper-class tragicomedies the range or authority or humor of Philip Barry, but he has lasted longer. All these qualities which Noel Coward has and has not have made him the world's most prosperous showman. He has written...
Showmanship on the Coward scale is almost big business. To handle the money end of his affairs he has headquarters in London, where he is called "The Great White Father," another in Manhattan's RKO Building, where there is a photomural of a scene from his Bittersweet. In each of these places, head man is a tall (6 ft.), graceful Yaleman (1922) of 37-John C. Wilson of Trenton, N. J. After college he escaped briefly from Wall Street when given a small part in a road company of Polly Preferred. Back in trade, he got Noel Coward...
...oldest production arrangements in the modern theatre is the "triple bill." Of the nine plays in his three triples, Playwright Coward is at pains to have it known: "All . . . have been written especially...