Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NOEL COWARD...
There is nothing misplaced about that confidence; Essendine, though near farcical in his heterosexuality, is nevertheless Playwright Coward's most detailed self-caricature. The people who dance attendance on him are all parodistically based on people who surrounded Coward when he was at the height of his fame in prewar London. First produced there in 1942, and now revived at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Present Laughter lacks the geometrically perfect craftsmanship of Private Lives and has too little narrative drive to be ranked among the elegant best of Coward's works...
Divorced. By Maggie Smith, 40, willowy English Oscar winner (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) and this Broadway season's blase, acid-tongued divorcee in Noel Coward's drawing-room classic Private Lives: Actor Robert Stephens, 43; on grounds of Stephens' adultery; after eight years of marriage, two children; in London...
...world has not been waiting for, nor is it long likely to cherish Glenda Jackson's bizarre offering: a comic Hedda Gabler. She has apparently decided that Noel Coward is really the author of the play. Her performance at Washington, D.C.'s National Theater will certainly rank high in the annals of dramatic travesty...
...possessed a town house with painted ceilings and marble fireplaces that he rather hated and a charming wife in Schiaparelli originals whom he loved, and he showed off both. Parties the Clarks gave and attended were exercises in name-dropping: Noël Coward, Max Beerbohm, Arthur Rubinstein, T.S. Eliot, Winston Churchill...