Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author and composer of "This Year of Grace" Mr. Noel Coward last night was a benefaction. His songs and satires were of an upper class, ranging from competent to superlative, and the fleet manner in which they sped along made Mr. Cochran's London revue one of the merriest, of its closet type. Mr. Coward was not, however, so brilliant as a musical comedian. Unendowed with the impish attributes of a clown, his efforts were slightly laborious, and he sang in a weedy voice and danced with small facility. But when he grew dramatic in a tragic number reminiscent...
Based on new material found in the Public Record Office in London, this book offers the first complete biography of the great romancer...
...London society of which he has such wide and intimate knowledge is the background for his latest essay. People literary, artistic and scientific are his actors,--people who would normally be expected to have lofty aspirations which flub completely in the face of situations and forces quite as common as any existant in a lower social strata...
...have never cared too much for these books about conventional London society. They have always seemed to us too artificial, too impressed with the sense of their own originality and wickedness. But Mr. Huxley, while he has enough originality and enough wickedness, makes his characters at once human or ridiculous, or both, much more than Michael Arlen or some others, and for that reason he will generally be one of our enthusiasms...
...forth on the shore, cackle and screech and flap her wings, but that's the ineffective best she can do for an incongruous brood gliding serenely off to midpond. Mr. Meadows was a very nice old hen, his scuttlings were well-bred, his cacklings mellifluous. In a charming London house he brought up his daughters and entertained their friends. But when his dependable older daughter began to champion one of these, a violent young political laborite; and his darling younger daughter confessed she had allowed another, a scandalous man-about-town, to make love to her, he scuttled...