Word: cowards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great explorers sailing west from the Renaissance. Next came the age of grand Continental travel, and then a highly literary travel culminating in the wanderings of men like Evelyn Waugh and D.H. Lawrence and Robert Byron in the years after the first World War. Travel had a certain Noel Coward élan. Robert Benchley is said to have cabled home from Venice: STREETS FULL OF WATER. ADVISE...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 368 pages...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan...
...trouble starts when Mme Arcati (Fatima Mahdi), a bicycling enthusiast and old-fashioned medium given to "ectoplasmic manifestations" enters the scene. Madhdi's Mme Arcati is a short overly made-up lightening-tongued horror, but since this is precisely what Coward must have intended, Mahdi must be credited with a truly inspired bit of comic acting...
...great strength of this production. Hallowell's Charles is an admittedly chilled-out aristocratic sort, clearly amused at life. Browning's Elvira is striking and convincingly deceased-looking, and the timing of her barbs is deadly. Mary Powers makes a noble effort at the rather pointless slapstick Coward has unfortunately saddled the maid with...