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...Design for Living" -- Barrymore, 47th Street W.--The most insanely delightful comedy with the Lunts, and the author, Noel Coward. This must be seen...
Until recently a majority of Chinese newspapers flayed Generalissimo Chiang as a coward and a traitor, first because he sent no troops to help the heroic Chinese 19th Route Army at Shanghai, second because his foreign policy has been non-declaration of war on Japan and trust in the League of Nations. Last week Chiang had a slightly better Chinese Press because-though few if any Chinese expected him to fight Japan-the Generalissimo might change his mind. Burning with their country's shame, thousands of Chinese students yearned to fight, passionately discussed the whole ghastly situation in round...
Manhattan's Gramophone Shop reports three other big-selling records from abroad: a medley of Noel Coward's best-known songs which Coward took time to sing in his casual, high-pitched voice; a scene from the Savoy Follies given last summer in London in which Actress Florence Desmond does shrewd imitations of screen celebrities attending a Hollywood party; a comic take-off on any bad lieder singer done by the French comedian Betove. Most popular of the new classical importations are the Beethoven Concertos (First & Fifth) which German Pianist Artur Schnabel has made with the London Symphony...
...material. As in the "Son-Daughter" the call of patriotism breaks the thread of true love, but this time the outcome is comic. The plot is, of course, impossible; but that is inconsequential. For the lovelorn there is much gush; for the cynical there is a dash of Noel Coward's sophistication; for the ladies there is always the Colbert wardrobe...
...illustrate rot in the national fibre, Poet O'Neil introduces an incongruous parade of vicious types, an interpolation wooden enough to make a 13th Century miracle play seem like a production by Noel Coward. All four sexes are represented, besides a Banker, a Society Boy, a Negro Poet, an Indian Lecturer, an Agitator, a Sweet Old Thing. It is not surprising that these, and his thrill-chasing wife, drive young Daniel to self-destruction as the curtain falls...