Word: noel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoa, there! Wait a minute! What's this about the Noel Coward doings being the "first smash hit of a middling season" [TIME, Dec. 7]? What about Stage Door! What about Tovarich! I'll grant that the season has been even less than middling and the crop of flops has been a bumper one, but since first they opened both of these plays have been complete sellouts. Stage Door has never fallen below $19,500 a week at the Music Box and if that isn't a smash hit my name is Ivan Ivanovitch...
...Robichaud, a door-to-door circulation solicitor before the Star fell, who was elected president by his associates to head the six-man. Board of Directors which is made up of the paper's department heads. Editor who made the News-Herald well liked by Vancouverites was James Noel ("Pat") Kelly, born on the Isle of Man and a world wanderer until he settled in Vancouver. For world news, he figured correctly that the News-Herald could get along with the half-hour daily "pony" (telephone) United Press service from Portland. For local news, Editor Kelly gave his staff...
Twenty minutes before the curtain rose last Saturday night on his current production "Tonight at 8.30", Noel Coward, arch-wit and epigrammatist of the English and American stages, was made an honorary member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Dramatic Club, backstage at the National Theatre in New York...
...Said Noel, "I think that Mr. Shaw showed execrable taste in writing and publishing the play...
Just then Gertrude Lawrence, who is playing opposite Mr. Coward in "Tonight at 8.30", shouted down, "Oh, Noel, hurry! There's something about the king on the radio...