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Few indeed are the aspiring playwrights who would not give their eye teeth to be in Noel Coward's tan buckskin shoes. Aged 33, he has written or collaborated on 23 plays and musicomedies since 1920. One out of three have been huge successes. At one time he had...
For Playwright Coward, War is anathema. The 'closest approach his comedies make to profundity is this philosophy: let us be merry today for yesterday (1914-18) we died. To prove his point he wrote two strongly sentimental dramas. The first, Post Mortem (unproduced), exposes the social dissolution observed by...
Born. To Beatrice Ferguson Snipes, 29, Columbia (S. C.) murderess whose death sentence was commuted last fortnight to life imprisonment; a daughter. Weight: / Ib. Name: Frances Joan Snipes. The judge: "The child, of course, is not sentenced to the penitentiary." The hospital: "What to do with the baby is the...
"Where our ancestors dipped their pens in acid we now dip ours in syrup. In statesmanship ... it pays to advertise. The medium of caricature is a godsend to ambitious politicians for it exhibits personality in an arresting and compelling manner. . . . The cartoonist draws from physical characteristics their spiritual significance, or...
From April 2 (Passion Sunday), 1933 to April 2, 1934 is by papal proclamation to be a special holy year,* celebrating the 1900th anniversary of the death of Jesus Christ. "We are not sure," said the Pope, "whether the anniversary should fall in 1933 or 1934. However, we proclaim it...