Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...STEP ASIDE-Noel Coward-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Actors, writers, wistful perverts, celebrity-hounds, the occupants of cheap rooming houses, are the creatures of Noel Coward's seven stories. In detail, at times, almost indecently sharp-eyed and entertaining, as wholes they are poor in ratio to their seriousness, good in ratio to their snottiness. Best: misadventures of a gentle English celebrity who, lassoed into a Long Island week end of guaranteed peace & quiet, finds himself the agonized vortex of a Walpurgisnacht of corrupt artists, moneymen, scrimmaging Lesbians, carnivorous wives and dowagers. Their favorite adjective: "genuine...