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...Frances Noel Barber...
Monthly Cycles. The probability of a causal relationship between estrogen and uterine cancer was strengthened last week by two reports in the New England Journal of Medicine. The first, a statistical study prepared by a team led by Dr. Noel Weiss of the University of Washington in Seattle, stated that between 1969 and 1973 the incidence of cancer of the uterus had generally increased from about 20% to 60%, depending on the geographical area surveyed, among middle-aged women. The magnitude of that increase, concluded the study, "has rarely been paralleled in the history of cancer reporting in this country...
Present Laughter. A Noel Coward musical, lots of light amusement. In the Kirkland House JCR at 8 p.m., April 29-May1. Tickets...
Present Laughter is especially interesting as a period piece, for it represents a style of comedy that is no longer written for the stage. Noel Coward was a member of the British aristocratic leisure class and his characters were reflections of his own lifestyle. These days the stock medium for these characters is satire. Their frivolous preoccupation with style and good form seems merely ludicrous. They are difficult to identify with so it now seems more appropriate to laugh at them rather than with them. But despite these changes in attitude, Present Laughter is still an effective comedy because Coward...
...Noel Coward is a legendary figure in the annals of theatrical history. In this most fickle of professions, he could do it all. He wrote plays and musicals, and he acted in them. He proceeded in all his endeavors with the conviction that above all theater should be entertaining. At one point in Present Laughter Garry says to one of his amours, "You're in love with an illusion, the illusion that I gave you when you saw me on stage." For Noel Coward, the business of theater was to create that kind of illusion. The Kirkland House Drama Society...