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Leading a Mothers' Crusade, into Capitol corridors stamped Mrs. Elizabeth Billing, calling for Florida's Senator Claude Pepper. "Pepper is a coward," screeched Mrs. Dilling. "He's just an old scaredy-cat and won't talk to us. How much is he getting to sell this Republic out? I'm hot and bothered. We came here to protest against this dictatorship and war bill. . . . We want other things too. We want warm blankets for the boys in camp who are cold...
...breakfast, lunch and tea to a queue of 300 who had lined up 24 hours before a Lawrence first night. In the U. S. she played in another Chariot's Revue, the Gershwin musicomedy Oh, Kay!, Treasure Girl, Candle Light with Leslie Howard, Lew Leslie's International Review, Noel Coward's Private Lives and Tonight at 8:30 with her old friend, recently Susan and God and Skylark...
...begin with she was not the finished, versatile actress she is today. She had a tendency to overplug her comedy with exaggerated gestures and grimaces, and she had little emotional range. But gradually, especially by working with the hyper critical and candid Coward, her acting began to acquire sureness and scope. After Private Lives even Robert Benchley was encouraged to say: "Certain curmudgeons m these parts will hear with relief that Miss Lawrence has somewhat abated since her last didoes in New York. She can now express wild surprise without such feats of contortion as really ought to be saved...
...Coward's cycle of nine short plays called Tonight at 8:30 she surprised every one with her emotional flexibility, playing not only Mayfairian parts, but a shrewish lower-class wife whose husband revolts from their sodden routine, and a romance-starved middle-aged woman beginning and ending a hopeless affair in a railroad station restaurant. By the middle '30s it had become clear that while Gertrude Lawrence might not be the perfect understudy for Katharine Cornell, the versatile Miss Lawrence could come a great deal closer to putting across Juliet than Miss Cornell could to putting across Someone...
...love you?Noel Coward...