Word: noel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nude With Violin (by Noel Coward) is, more accurately, Noel with one string to his bow. The play concerns a just-dead and extremely famous painter who, it turns out, had never painted a single one of his pictures. As the painter's cheeky, in-on-the-swindle valet. Coward buzzes about while the dead man's family try to hush things up and cope with the actual painter-and potential blackmailer. Then it turns out that there was also a second painter. And, for that matter, a third-and a fourth. Though Coward has carefully varied...
...Club applied last spring for assistance, since the government had sent similar groups abroad previously. Ticket admissions alone could not cover the cost of the European trip, according to Noel J. Tyl '58, manager of the Glee Club...
Upon arriving at "Goat Island," Angelo finds his friend's wife, younger sister, and only child, a blossoming girl of about fifteen. The sister, Pia, played by Magali Noel, is bored by farm life and wants excitement. Immediately upon Angelo's arrival she sets her sights on him and goes efficiently about the task of seducing him. Being an obliging sort, Angelo is quick to relieve Pia's boredom, and only five minutes after his arrival he is embracing her. She resists, playfully...
Scriptwriter Frank Nugent did the original story an injustice by introducing extraneous characters and de-emphasizing the police inspector, but Majesty still comes across very well. Cyril Cusack gives the best performance in the film as the inspector, and Noel Purcell is almost as good. The rest of the characters are Mr. Nugent's creatures, and are more than a little hammy. But then, Ireland may be a little hammy...
Four Winds is rather like something by Noel Coward as adapted by a German moralist and retranslated into English. In a certain sense, through its own gift of tediousness and soggy small talk, it mirrors an expensively empty world. But its truths are the dreariest truisms, its gamut a mere shuttling between the plushy and the preachy. It gives no new wrinkle to the lowlifes in highlife. Only the jangled sharpness with which English Actress Ann Todd plays the heroine has any resonance; all else is a blur of echoes and a drone of words...