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...Autumn Crocus" was one of the successes of last year both in New York and in London. It is a recoil from the hard-boiled type of comedy that is represented by Mr. Noel Coward, being written in the tradition of Barrie. Instead of depending for its appeal on verbal celverness, or shocking lines it sets up in place of these an air of quiet pleasantness and of deliberately sentimental romance. It is difficult to draw the line between tenderness and a sweetness that becomes sickening; but Barrie was able to do it and it is done with almost...
...world has agreed with King Edward. Cinema audiences hear it with half the British newsreels. Noel Coward made it the theme tune of his Cavalcade (TIME, Jan. 16, 1933). And though Sir Edward tired of it (he omits it from the list of his compositions in British Who's Who) Pomp and Circumstance has the lusty. red-blooded quality which characterizes the best of Elgar's music. When he was recognized by the throne, Elgar started writing too much occasional music. He celebrated King George's coronation, his visit to India in 1912, his recovery from pneumonia...
SLOW DEATH AT GENEVA-"Diplomat" -Coward-McCann ($2). Young Dennis Tyler has to look after the victim, do his work at the Conference, chat affably with many persons, keep it all out of the papers, while he finds a murderer. And well he does it, against a convincing background of international small talk and intrigue...
...read once each week," said Judge Akerman, "the [AAA] act is so full of holes you could drive eight yoke of oxen through it. I would be more than happy if I could avoid deciding the questions presented in this case, but if I did I would be a coward. I cannot allow public clamor to deter my ruling as I see the matter...
...longer for letters. Come of Age would have it a sadder thing still that he lived no longer for himself. Clemence Dane has clothed this fragile, moving phantasy in verse sometimes remindful of the brassy couplets of Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party, sometimes of Noel Coward's flip lyrics, never of the stately pentameters of her own Will Shakespeare. The Boy (Stephen Haggard) is lying dead on his pallet when Death comes to take him. The Boy screams defiance, pleads for a chance to come of age among the living. Before Death agrees, centuries pass...