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...audience in fun and terror. One of the subsidiary characters is Helga ten Dorp (Marian Winters), a psychic who prophesies events with a certain deadly inaccuracy. Winters makes her the most consumingly droll zany since Mildred Natwick, as Mme. Arcati, had close encounters with a nether world in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit...
...West grossed hugely in Europe, and Bronson got the chance to be himself, a hard man of few words and strong feelings-lé sacre monstre, as the French took to calling him. "I can't hang around a mantelpiece in a tuxedo with a cocktail speaking Noel Coward lines," he says. "When I was doing character parts, they were so far from me that it was always kind of ridiculous. I never really related to the way I looked, moved, sounded. Now I limit the range to where I'm believable...
...sophisticate's sophisticate, Porter was perhaps the closest U.S. equivalent to Noël Coward, yet not quite his equal. Though Porter was a wily wizard of rhyme, he lacked some of the inventive fun of Coward's lines. Despite Porter's infatuation with what he called the "rich-rich," he is less intercontinental than Coward. His true territorial imperative was Broadway. The propellent force in his songs is to reach and grab a New York audience. In this production, the women clearly outshine the men. Each has a distinct personality in manner and voice. Maureen Moore...
When Mao was under stress, he would sometimes take his troubles out on her. Once, when the Nationalists had started bombing the Communist strongholds in Yenan, she reported to him that his own aides were afraid. "You are a coward!" he snarled at her. Strain sometimes was caused by their strikingly different backgrounds. She was a city girl. Mao came from a well-to-do peasant family, and rebelled against his conservative father-whom, as Chiang Ch'ing recalled, Mao would still curse even when he was in his seventies...
...then the play has flashes of what it might have been. The first scene, where husband, wife and wife's lover trade epigrams, has some of the flavor of the early Noel Coward-without, unfortunately, Coward's fine, glyptic phrasing. Describing an earthquake that has just killed 20 million Italians, Wintermouth mourns "Poor Italy. Shaped like a boot, and the heel fell off." Madeline Kahn, however, can make even the most ordinary lines sound like Coward...