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...Noel Coward, back in the U.S. on another show-business trip, put his stick away and walked upright after a shaky spell with rheumatic fever...
...feature, Actress Johnson is a plain woman. Yet her stage presence, dominated by her huge, sorrow-logged eyes; is delicately compelling. Celia is far less dramatic and complicated than she appears. Says her Old Vic director, John Burrell: "Celia always sticks to simple two and two make four." Noel Coward, one of her fondest fans, complains that in her simple contentment "she has to be batted on the head...
Producers have been eagerly batting her on the head since 1930, when she scored a personal hit in a flop called Debonair. After her first big London success, The Wind and the Rain (1933), she married a globe-trotting London Timesman, Peter Fleming, and began (as Coward overstates it) to "have children with monotonous regularity" (she has three...
Playwright Sacha Guitry, the 62-year-old Noel Coward of Paris, took on a new chore for Luxembourg radio listeners, Guitry, and his sponsor. From Paris the much-married jack-of-all-theatrics would make small-talk in his plush, bedroomy voice for 15 minutes a week. The old heartthrob's sponsor: Scandale Corsets...
...total of the evening is a remarkably well-balanced serving of Coward, tremendously enhanced by his expert direction. Even in the weak moments of "Fumed Oak," the element timing of action and dialogue carries the audience past the inherent failures of the work: and although the middle-class experiment fails through author's in ability to combine his overeager social consciousness with a saving fluency of dialogue, the director's fine sense of timing and contrast save the piece as a whole. Indeed, the neatly-balanced combination of Coward and Coward make the Shubert bill worth...