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...Senate, chairman of its top committee, Foreign Relations, a major voice in U. S. foreign policy. Still a believer in directness, he spoke his mind with no feeling for statesmanlike discretion. When he felt exuberant sometimes he was downright careless with words. He once called Hitler "a coward." He endorsed sanctions against Italy: "Why shoot a man when you can starve him to death?" On a quiet Thursday morning in December 1938, he typed out a brief statement of U. S. foreign policy...
Recently a group of cinema luminaries burst forth in Noel Coward's nine-play cycle Tonight at 8:30 right in Los Angeles' El Capitan Theatre. Suddenly the stage became as popular in Hollywood as pinko politics used to be. Three weeks ago, amid a bright glare of flash bulbs, the Coward cycle reached its climax, with Noel himself in the audience. Bedazzling was the throng that welcomed him. Even the reclusive Garbo was there, escorted by her dietitian Dr. Gayelord Hauser, who puts as much faith in vegetable juice as Popeye puts in spinach...
Last week the Coward series began its second hitch at El Capitan, with Rosalind Russell and Herbert Marshall in Still Life, Claire Trevor in Family Album. Judith Anderson in Hands Across the Sea. Binnie Barnes in Red Peppers. Not so good were Constance Bennett and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in We Were Dancing. After watching his daughter go through her paces, Richard Bennett testily observed: "Connie was born an amateur, she always has been an amateur, and still is an amateur." Another amateur, Elsa Maxwell, giggled through Ways and Means, displaying her broad beam in a series of startling stoops...
Despite its troubles the Guild grossed a fat $20,000 weekly with Tonight at 8:30, and Actor Mowbray, who intends to rename his organization The Players Theatre when the Coward series is over, was making long plans for the future. The Guild's present popularity is stimulated by the fact that all its profits are now donated to the British War Relief Association, whose Southern California division Alan Mowbray heads. Actors in Tonight at 8:30 contribute their services free...
Members also wanted to know what Playwright Noel Coward was doing in the U. S. Said Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information Harold Nicolson: Coward was expected to call on President Roosevelt, "possesses contacts with certain sections of opinion which are very difficult to reach through ordinary sources." Said the London Daily Mirror's acid Cassandra: "Mister Coward, with his stilted mannerisms, his clipped accents and his vast experience of the useless froth of society, may be making contacts with the American equivalents . . . but as a representative for democracy he's like a plate of caviar...