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Since her parents were divorced when Gertie was very small, she was brought up by her mother. At ten she made her stage debut in London in a Christmas pantomime of Babes in the Wood. In another children's play she met a lisping small boy named Noel Coward. In his autobiography, Present Indicative, he has written: "She . . . gave me an orange and told me a few mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards." For a while she went to the Convent of the Sacre Coeur, Streatham, studied dancing under a Madame Espinosa, and acting at Italia...
...Castillo blamed the Radicals for refusing to make peace, threatened to dissolve Congress and rule by duodécimo.* The Radical Chamber of Deputies cracked back by refusing to vote on the budget, the Pinedo Plan or anything else until the election frauds were investigated. Angry shouts of "Buffoon!," "Coward!," "Show-off!" filled the Chamber...
Under that low ceiling Author Hutchinson flies the higher of the two. He does a sort of subdued version of Noel Coward's noisy Cavalcade, conducting an English clerical family through the first three decades of the 20th Century. Always a ready hand with the Gentle Soul beset by the Stupid Community (notably in If Winter Comes), he plays it now in the Rev. Gordon Brecque, his patient service of his God, and his vicissitudes. The pre-war era is largely consumed by watered-Dickensi-an childhood episodes; during the post war years two children marry stodgily...
...Bittersweet" is full of lilting Noel Coward tunes and Jeanette MacDonald's red hair. The plot is concerned chiefly with the gay, carefree life of Old Vienna, with two people awfully, awfully, desperately in love, and genius starving in a garret. Nothing is notably different from any other picture of that type and about the best that can be said for it is an acceptable encore of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. And there will probably be people who will still be clapping for another...
SMOKY HOUSE-Elizabeth Goudge-Coward-McCann...