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Died. John Mortimer Coward, 28, millionaire owner of the Coward shoe stores (Manhattan); of heart disease; in Havana, Cuba. His son, John Mortimer Coward 3d, aged 5, falls heir...
...figure rises, moves slowly towards the door, sways slightly, impervious to the thunder which rises like a cloud from the floor, trembles in the pendant air. The courage of Smith. Coward! I lack the ordinary manhood to rise and hand in this paper. When I was twelve years old . . . my stepfather hit me on the head with a paper-weight, . . . surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. I will sit here, afraid to leave until the last minute has ticked itself into obscurity, because an inferiority complex shall follow me all the days...
...Those seances should be taken as a game and the audiences should play along with me. If they're so stupid as to take me seriously they're fools. Both of us should kid the inspector. The man who cat-calls me in the dark is a coward, why doesn't he do it when the lights...
Fallen Angels. Playwright Noel Coward pours two cocktails into his two leading ladies; pours into them a bottle of champagne; pours into them liqueurs. At the middle of the champagne bottle they are quietly but firmly intoxicated; at the curtain they are swirling drunk. Mr. Coward accomplishes this genteel disintegration with impudent realism. Estelle Winwood encourages his impudence with important blurts and wabbles, including the removal of her shoes. To Fay Bainter, is allotted the task of growing more dignified and lady like with every gulp. All this consumes the second act. A first tells how these impeccable and bosom...
...Marquise. An English youth named Noel Coward wrote The Vortex (London 1924, Manhattan 1925) and since then disciples have awaited another play as good. The Marquise is another not so good. It is about a lady who descended upon a French chateau to see her old lover and her child by him. Soon she found the child affianced to a neighbor's son, also her child. It is carefully explained that save for these two slips the lady has been strictly moral, and the purpose of the play is to decide which of these two lovers she shall marry...