Word: cowards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, Huey's slights and snubs, his withholding of the choicest of the plums, were beginning to pique Earl Long. One dramatic day Earl walked out on Huey, letting it be known that he, Earl, had fought Huey's childhood fistfights for him. Earl screeched, "Big-bellied coward!" Earl later confronted Huey, face distorted and arms flailing, during a U.S. Senate hearing on election fraud. When Earl intimated that Huey was susceptible to graft, Huey raged at Earl: "Listen to that! Liar Earl Long!" But Earl shouted back: "I stood with you as long as I could...
Fallen Angels (by Noel Coward) is 30 years old, and was far from robust when young. Fortunately, it has been given no orthodox revival: Noel Coward's limp play has been turned into Nancy Walker's gorgeous plaything. Actress Walker (On the Town, Phoenix '55) has become one of the theater's most wildly and continuously funny clowns, capable of rowdy hauteurs and of a stare that could blight fruit. To Coward's drawingroom yarn of two bored young wives who jointly, jealously, at length drunkenly await the arrival of a Frenchman they both sinned...
Viewers last week were treated to the raciest-and most profane-language that has ever been heard on TV. The author: Noel Coward, who also acted with silky efficiency in his Blithe Spirit, on CBS's Ford Star Jubilee. As for the sprinkling of "hells" and "damns" in his play, Coward observed coldly: "People who object to the profanity in Blithe Spirit are crackpots, and Mr. Ford should be happy if even one of them doesn't buy his car. They would be a menace on the highway...
...show itself was one of the highlights of a drama-studded week. In telling the story of a husband bedeviled by the ghost of his first wife (and then of his second wife), Coward got notable support from Mildred Natwick, who played a zany medium with all the comic zest she had brought to the part in its Broadway opening some 15 years ago. Claudette Colbert and Lauren Bacall, as the materializing wives, looked their parts more adequately than they played them, and Actress Bacall sometimes seemed uneasy when reciting the litany of her infidelities, as if she expected...
Ford Star Jubilee (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Noel Coward in his Blithe Spirit, with Lauren Bacall, Claudette Colbert...