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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...
...clerk to become co-publisher of the old Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., one of the world's biggest book publishers; in Toronto. A publisher with a mind of his own, Doran refused to publish D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow on moral grounds, was allegedly called a coward by John Dos Passos for censoring his Three Soldiers before publishing it. Training a jaundiced eye on postwar bestsellers, Doran once said: "Can't say I think much of 'em. Trashy, dirty stuff ... No spiritual force, no moral fiber. Great Scott, I'm no Victorian prude...
...Girl in the Copa Line. From modeling, Ann progressed to acting. In 1939, when Bill Woodward was a schoolboy at Groton, she was a showgirl in Noel Coward's girlshow, Set to Music. Later she had some minor success in radio soap operas, e.g., Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne, and in nightclubs.. One night in 1943 Ensign Bill Woodward, just out of Harvard and just sworn in for wartime service with the Navy, spotted a girl wearing a cat costume in the chorus line at the Copacabana. It was Ann, and it was love. After a two-week engagement...