Word: cowards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some, "Private Lives" may be purely period stuff; to others--if so interested a point in Noel Coward's rather halcyon development. To the more romantically inclined, it may seem the gay picture of "la vie de joie"; to the socially bent, a milestone of that smooth highway on which the London Smart Set zipped along in its multipowered Stutz, bound for decay. But dated or not natural or textual, the production at the Colonial is a combination of some of this century's smoothest dialogue, shouted, laughed, cried, and whispered by something rare in the theatrical world an acres...
...Elyot Chase, Amanda's former husband and current lover a composition more likely drawn from Coward's experience than imagination Donald Cook works with much vigor. His portrayal of the decadent, effeminate male is, however, slightly overdone, and occasionally approaches the prissiness of Edward Everett Horton. Mary Mason, his uncon-summate wife, has an annoyingly shrill voice which would convincingly irritate any husband, onstage or off. Alexander Clark, as Victor Prynne, is described by his wife as "a fat old gentleman in a club armchair," and is just that...
...able o live with courage and die with dignity. Tying up this joyous philosophy in a neat bundle, the final curtain finds the innocent lovers, Mio and Miriamne, bulletriddled and lifeless, while the judge who sentenced the guiltless man to the chair, the real murderer, and a craven coward who shielded the killer, go their merry way, presumably troubled by nothing except their consciences...
Lily Pons: Waltz Album (Columbia, 8 sides). Piccolo-voiced Pons trills Gounod, Strauss and Noel Coward, all in three-quarters time. Performance: good...
Producer Filippo Del Giudice (who promoted Noei Coward's In Which We Serve on an original ?15,000 shoestring) furnished some, and raised more.t of the ?472,000 (a little under $2,000,000) which Henry V cost...