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...usually makes it pay. In Forest Park, St. Louis has the biggest revolving stage in the U. S., built between majestic twin oaks which are heavily insured and dosed with castor oil to fend off sickness. There the Municipal ("Muny") Opera Company broke all attendance records lately with Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet (62,000 heard it in a week). Floradora, musty relic of the nineties, ran close second. Last week at the Muny Opera Rip Van Winkle was put on with Robert Planquette's corny, old-time score jazzed almost beyond recognition. The Muny...
...cloistered literary man, Bennett knew so many prominent people of his day that it would be easier to list those he did not know than those he did. Member of no literary school, he was on friendly terms with such irreconcilables as the Sitwells, H. G. Wells, Shaw, Noel Coward, "Max" Beaverbrook, T. S. Eliot, Otto Kahn, Winston Churchill, Andre Gide, John Galsworthy, Lord Birkenhead, George Moore. He liked most people. Of an evening when Shaw was present he notes: "Shaw talked practically the whole time, which is the same thing as saying that he talked a damn sight...
...costume of an 18th Century highwayman but with the spats and swordcane of a Victorian confidence man. Polly is Steffi Duna, who in Hungary was called "Steffi, the Wonder Child." Pert Miss Duna, whose elfin face looks not unlike Sylvia Sidney's, played in Noel Coward's Words & Music in London earlier this season, is now making...
...best gentleman's library" is fully deserved, but also that it is used to great advantage by the class of 1936. A librarian reports an average attendance of over 10 per cent of the class. A list of the most popular books includes workes of Morley, Lippmann, Cabell, Barrie, Coward, Wharton, and Virginia Woolf. A marked predilection for Shaw, both his established plays and his latest tale frequently leaving the shelves. Appreciation of the poetry of Millay, Wylie, Pound, and Eliot is hardly indicative of a dormant interest in literature. W. Robin Taylor '36. Francis J. Whitfield...
...distinguish between the genuine debs in the audience and the members of the chorus who were wandering around the halls. A piano specialty was perfectly executed, but more familiar selections might be suggested as more likely to entertain. A scene "Design for Living," haunted by the spirit of Noel Coward, was good enough to be enlarged upon. A. D. Cadman '35 contributed a brilliant bit as safari...