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WHAT’S ON? ACROSS THE GLOBE (* denotes Premiere, TBC = To be confirmed) Professional companies are shown in - amateur companies in black. JANUARY America & 2003 24 Apr to 10 May Whitby Courthouse Theatre, Whitby, Ontario 7 to 19 Jun The New Harmony Theatre Opening, New Harmony Indiana. 24 Jun to 31 Aug Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, Utah, USA. www.bard.org. 5 to 15 Feb Player’s Theatre, McGill university Montreal, Quebec 7 to 23 Apr Gimli Theatre Association, Gimli, Manitoba 8 to 17 May Gateway Theatre Guild, North Bay, Ontario 7 Jun to 5 Jul The Metropolitan Cooperative Theatre Society, Vancouver BC Waiting for Coward May 5th A play by Elizabeth Sharland at the Algonquin, NYC ELAINE AT DRURY LANE Europe Entity Theatre Workshop 23 Jan to 1 Feb The Aula Theatre, Munich, Germany RECALLS THE MASTER 15 Feb Black Box Theatre, Gasteig, Germany The Society completed its Blithe Spirit 31 Mar to 2 Apr Zurich International School, Kilchberg, Switzerland third celebration of The Australasia Master’s Birthday at Drury // 2 Lane on 14th December 2002 7 to 26 Jul Queensland Theatre Co. Optus Playhouse, Brisbane (Press Night 10 Jul) with real style. Our guests Blithe Spirit 28 to 31 Aug Tropic Line TheatreTownsville, Queensland, Australia provided a feast for both 15 Nov to 20 Dec Melbourne Theatre Co Victoria then national tour 2003 (Press Night 19 Nov) members and media. Theatre Suite in Two Keys 11 Mar Effie Crump Theatre stars for this occasion were The Rest of the World Private Lives Current Pieter Toerien Productions, Cape Town, Grahamstown, Jo’burg, South Africa our own Vice-President Judy United Kingdom Campbell who reflected on Hay Fever TBC New West End production starring Penelope Wilton the life and career of Graham 31 Jan to 8 Feb The Angles Theatre, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Payn, and the inimitable 18 to 22 Feb Swansea Little Theatre Co. Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea Elaine Stritch who recalled 5 to 8 Mar Bijou Theatre Club, Palace Theatre, Paignton, Devon with humour her memories of Noel Michael Imison and watch as Elaine Stritch Nude With Violin 7 to 14 June Stockport , Stockport, Cheshire Coward. We picked our way takes on the press at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 20 Jan to 30 Mar Theatre Royal Bath Productions UK Tour through a media melange of photog- development of the Society across the pre-Christmas rush to the 17 to 22 Mar Romsey Operatic and Dramatic Society. The Plaza Theatre, Romsey raphers and a Home Box Office the globe. Ken Starrett our repre- to see a Fumed Oak 13 &14 Dec Phoenix Players, Village Hall, Abertin, Glamorgan crew making a documentary on sentative in was matinee performance of The Vortex 5 Dec to 15 Feb The Donmar Theatre Elaine, that gave the foyer at the present together with members from starring Francesca Annis and Fallen Angels 15 to 24 Aug Hever Lakeside Theatre, Kent Brief Encounter Current to 30 Apr Noel Coward / Andrew Taylor - Middle Ground Theatre Co UK Tour Theatre Royal a touch of ‘movie all over the country. Michael Imison, on a set that struck 25 Apr to 17 May Noel Coward / Andrew Taylor - Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch magic’ in what is fast becoming an who retires from the Chair for a an impressive balance between the A Song at Twilight 24 Jan to 8 Feb Perth Theatre Company Box Office 01738 621031 www.perththeatre.co.uk annual celebration of the Society in second time received the whole- Art Deco mores of The Twenties Relative Values 31 May to 7 Jun Halifax Thespians at The Playhouse, Halifax, West Yorkshire the UK. Earlier in the day at the hearted thanks of the members for and small modern theatre demands - Bitter Sweet 10 to 14 June Maidenhead Operatic Society at Maidenhead Town Hall. www.mos-uk.org. Society’s Annual General Meeting his services to the Society and was a feat not entirely echoed in the Blithe Spirit 17 to 22 Feb Folkestone & Hythe O&DS Little Theatre, Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent at the Theatre Museum, Covent presented with a painting of Noel production itself. 24 Feb to 1 Mar Bingley Little Theatre, Bingley, West Yorks. Garden, members showed their Coward by Eve Fisher painted in Read ’s view on 5 to 8 Mar Poulton Drama, Poulton Le Fylde, Lancs keenness to contribute to the 1952. Following lunch at the Café this new revival production on 12 to 15 Mar Playhouse Theatre Co, Studio Theatre, Harlow, Essex page 2. 6 Jun to 31 Oct Cumbria Theatre Trust, Theatre By The Lake, Keswick, Cumbria des Amis, members walked through 11 to 16 & Jill Freud & Co, Southwold, Suffolk 18 to 30 Aug Jill Freud & Co, Southwold, Suffolk Private Lives 24 Jan to 15 Feb The Attic Theatre, Hertfordshire 24 Feb to 3 Mar Erith Theatre Guild, Theatre Playhouse, Erith, Kent 27 Feb to 29 Mar Octagon Theatre, Bolton 5 to 8 Mar Amamteur Dramatic Society, Harrogate, Yorkshire. 13 to 29 Mar Mercury Theatre, Colchester 19 Sep to 11 Oct Theatre Royal, York Semi-Monde 27 Jan to 13 Feb British School for Performing Arts & Technology, Main Theatre, Croydon Waiting In The Wings 30 Sep to 4 Oct The Old Market, Brighton

The Noël Coward Society, 29, Waldemar Avenue, Hellesdon, Norwich, NR6 6TB Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)1603 486188 Fax: +44 (0)1603 400683 Members gather in the foyer of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane for the Noel Coward by Eve Fisher Annual Flower Laying ceremony to mark The Master’s Birthday painted in 1952

Page 16 Noel Coward at The Ivy - 29th March - Lorna Dallas accompanied by Jason Carr. See page 3 The Vortex cost. Only Coward himself, reading The Donmar’s production of The COMMITTEE - 2003 US Representatives it to the Lord Chamberlain four Vortex is sober and intelligent, the Ken Starrett in New York email: STOP PRESS ... Patron: (An extract from: days before its opening night, cast well chosen. Bette Bourne, [email protected] Honorary President: Sir John Mills ‘High society and slumming it’ - an retrieved it from the blue pencil. James O’Brien in Philadelphia email: Coward X 2 dressed as a man (actually, if you Honorary Vice Presidents: Judy article in the New Statesman on [email protected] This is a benefit for Shakespeare Globe Critical reactions elsewhere to look closely, he is a man), is a fine Campbell Moira Lister Sheridan Morley The Vortex at the Donmar & Walter Smyth in Trevose near Phila- Centre USA (SGC USA). The event will Grandage’s new production are vicious old queen. Deborah Findlay Chair - John Knowles King Heldey II at the Tricycle) delphia email:[email protected] comprise Coward’s “Age Cannot likely to focus on his radical finds the humanity in Florence’s email:[email protected] Alan Farley in San Francisco email: Wither”, featuring Rosemary Harris, decision to cast a black actor John is a Director of NC Ltd. by SHERIDAN MORLEY best friend. Ejiofor jars, not because [email protected] Sally Ann Howes, and Hayley Mills, Membership Secretary - of considerable authority and he looks out of place but because Jeff Bierig Chicago and the Midwest and Barry Day’s “Noel&Alfred&Lynn”, Geoffrey Skinner ’s artistic distinction (Chiwetel Ejiofor, who he is stylistically 80 years away email: [email protected] with Rosemary Harris, Barrie Ingham email: geoffrey@samuelfrench- directorship of the Donmar starred in Blue Orange) in from the other characters. and Simon Jones. The event will be .co.uk QUERIES TO ... held on Monday, March 17th at the Warehouse opens with a revival of Coward’s own leading role of Nicky The Vortex is at the Donmar Geoffrey represents Samuel French John Knowles email: University Club. Tickets for the The Vortex. In a Treasurer - Graham Martin email Warehouse, London WC2 [email protected] performance and the preceding thoughtful email:[email protected] (020 73691732) until 15 Editor of Home Chat and the Website. reception are $250; tickets for the Graham is a partner of Blinkhorns programme note, February ‘03 Michael Imison email: reception, performance, and dinner Michael Imison Philip Hoare, Noel [email protected] following are $450. Michael is a director of Noel Coward Coward’s latest The following extract is UK and US productions. Ltd. and is the immediate Past Chair of biographer, pinpoints Dominic Vlasto email: Over My Shoulder taken from the Donmar the Society the social and sexual [email protected] Stewart Nicholls writes to say that Warehouse website: Robert Gardiner Coward musicology & performance. ...Over My Shoulder the Jessie significance of the www.donmar-warehouse.com Robert is a director of Noel Coward Geoffrey Skinner (Samuel French) Matthews story is being performed for play that made A storm is brewing that Ltd. & a trustee of the Noël Coward email: geoffrey@samuelfrench- five weeks at the Mill at Sonning from Coward the threatens to engulf the Foundation. london.co.uk Membership and all sales 8th April until 10th May. It is then shocking darling of a Gareth Pike Lancaster family. Returning of CDs and books. going on a five week tour - venues to very conservative Gareth is a Past Secretary of the from Paris, Nicky (Chiwetel Gareth Pike email: [email protected] be confirmed. Not only does the show Society. and cowardly West Ejiofor) discovers that his Student, general and biographical. feature a couple of Coward songs - it Claire Osborne End. glamorous socialite mother, Stephen Marshall email: also features a cameo of Coward! This Claire represents Warner Chappell No executor of the Florence (Francesca Annis), [email protected] show was previously seen at the music publishers Coward estate could A man ahead of his time: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Francesca Annis Information on the recordings, pro- Jermyn Street theatre in the West End. has taken a lover half her Stewart Nicholls grammes, tributes & press cuttings. fail to be cheered by the news that Lancaster. To compound the age. While Nicky battles with the Stewart is a Theatre Producer/Director For enquiries about amateur rights ZIPP! the most successful and curiosity of the casting, both his conflicting emotions that her Barry Day for plays please contact the following. 100 MUSICALS FOR LESS THAN THE revolutionary theatre company in parents are played by white actors. behaviour arouses, Florence is Barry is an established author and Samuel French Ltd, 52 Fitzroy Street, PRICE OF ONE! horrified by her son’s equally Coward historian and US Consultant London wished to open a new Francesca Annis is quite wondrous London W1T 5JR, United Kingdom Tel: Gyles Brandreth says “We are Stephen Marshall chapter with an 80-year-old play by as Florence, the dreadful, beautiful, devastating revelation. 020 7255 4302 for the UK previewing now at The Duchess and Knew Noel Coward and was the an actor-dramatist once held up, if selfish, vain mother. These choices Samuel French Inc., 45 West 25th featuring “moments of The Master” - Secretary of the First-Nighters only by the Royal Court, as an seem to dare us to notice the CAST Street, New York, NY 10010, USA not enough, of course - but we face a Jane Finch example of all that was out-of-date disjunction caused by the presence In order of speaking Tel: (212) 206-8990 Fax (212) 206-1429 challenge: we are covering 102 years of Jane is very active in the world of Preston Toni Kanal Samuel French Ltd.,7623 Sunset musicals in 90 minutes!! We go from and dangerously irrelevant about of a person who would most drama in the West Midlands Helen Saville Deborah Findlay Boulevard, Hollywood CA 90046 USA Florodora (1900) to Bombay Dreams the West End. So it is high time for certainly not have been there in Ali Howarth Samuel French (Canada) Ltd., 100 (2002) - and along the way take in as a Coward revival. 1924. Pauncefort Quentin Bette Bourne Ali represents Alan Brodie Representa- Lombard Street - Dept.W , Toronto, much as we can. The Master is Coward’s earliest plays were light, Grandage’s production is, in all Clara Hibbert Nina Sosanya tion who administer the Estate of the Ont., Canada M5C 1M3 Tel: represented AT LEAST TWICE - intermittently elegant, and other ways, very formal and Florence Lancaster Francesca Late Noel Coward (416) 363-3536 Fax (416) 363-1108 sometimes more: the show varies from Annis suggested that he might become traditional, the movements For professional rights to all written night to night. We always have “I’ll Ned is a producer at BBC Drama Pimlico’s answer to Frederick choreographed like a gavotte, the Tom Veryan work: Follow My Secret Heart . . .” and we Peter Tummons Lonsdale. The Vortex changed all clothes and furnishings strictly of Nicky Lancaster Chiwetel Ejiofor Alan Brodie Representation, 211, almost always have me attempting an Peter is the director of Methuen Drama that. In 1924, this play, Coward’s the period, the acting style of the David Lancaster Michael Hadley Piccadilly, London, W1J 9HF, United impersonation of the Master (“What if publishing first major hit at the age of 24, was other characters too, too Twenties, Bunty Mainwaring Indira Varma Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 20 7917 2871 Noel Coward had written Fame...”) - It’s NEW Committee Members: Bruce Fairlight Daniel Weyman Fax: +44 (0) 20 7917 2872 a show I am sure that the Society’s seriously radical. At this distance, darling, and perfectly divine. Only Marcy Kahan For enquiries and rights regarding members will enjoy.” John Knowles when plays about sex and drugs and Nicky doesn’t fit. Not nervous or Marcy is a screenwriter and stage music, sheet music and scores contact: says: a wonderful night out, great incest abound, how do we febrile, this supposedly drug- dramatist. Warner Chappell Music Group Ltd., show and very funny - a surprise treat! remember that this was the first? addicted, hysterical hedonist is Barbara Longford, Griffin House, 161 Hammersmith Road, The Lord Chamberlain nearly played by Ejiofor as a nice, sensible Stephen Greenman London, W6 8BS, United Kingdom Steve Ross is performing with Peter and Lawton Clark banned it, not on grounds of sex or boy trying to connect with his Phone: 44-208-563-5800 Fax: 44-208-563- Howard at the Stanhope Park Hyatt, Are all active members of the Society. th drugs, but on the dubious basis that loathsome mother on the grounds 5801or Warner/Chappell Music, NYC. until the 25 of this month. Then Consultants Philip Hoare & Joel Kaplan th it brought high society into that because she is addicted to sex, Inc.,10585 Santa Monica Boulevard, with Peter Mintun, from Jan. 28 until Australian Representative th th disrepute, showing these people to she should understand his addiction Los Angeles, CA 90025-4950, U.S.A. Feb. 8 , returning on March 4 with An Robert Wickham be shallow, pretentious and seeking to cocaine. Tel: 1-310-441-8600 Fax 1-310-470-6399 American In Paris - see Steve’s [email protected] new sensation whatever the human website: www.steveross.net Page 2 Page 15 TEN CHIMNEYS the opening gets nearer ... NCS - NEXT EVENT POSTE RESTANTE... Ken Starrett reviews. The first major event for the US and Alexander Woollcott. Much of the Main House and the Sir branch of the Noel Coward For decades, their idyllic retreat entire Program Center are NOEL Noël inspired the country’s finest actors, accessible by wheelchair. Please Society is to be part of the Pierce opening celebrations of Ten writers and artists. Now, an inform us in advance of special COWARD Chimneys the home of Alfred invitation to Ten Chimneys, once needs so that we may provide you Cow- Lunt and . Watch coveted by the stars, is extended to with a rich and comfortable ard out for this event in Home Chat ... you. You will feel as though you experience. AT THE IVY in the meantime to whet the have wandered into a dream. The rooms of the estate, most Our next event at The Ivy and the appetite here is a piece from the Tours are offered April through without barriers, are overflowing Theatre Museum, Covent Garden, Surnommé “ Le Maître “, Noël Foundation: October, Wednesday through with the Lunts’ personal collections. Sunday, rain or shine, from 10 a.m. Therefore, we regret that children marks the anniversary of the Coward a virtuellement inventé le passing of The Master 30 years ago concept de “Every time I was visiting the until 4 p.m. under 12 are not allowed on tours. in Jamaica. Noel Coward was part l’Englishness “, qu’on pourrait peut- Lunts in Genesee Depot I was in Reservations are highly Admission être traduire par “ Anglicité “ (?) of the group called the Bright a sort of daze of wonder. The recommended. Please call our Full Estate Tour: Wednesday and néologisme barbare voulant exprimer Young Things that used The Ivy as une certaine manière de se comporter dining room, the table, the china, Reservation Line between 9 a.m. Thursdays $30 quand on est anglais et du xxc siècle. their meeting-place in the early the silver, the food, the and 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays 1920s. Here a lively amalgam of extraordinary care and beauty Fridays. $35 Eminent touche-à-tout glitterati and aristocratic dilettantes (comédien, auteur dramatique, and taste . . . a sort of dream.” We currently offer two types of Main House Tour: Wednesday and danseur, compositeur, librettiste, Katharine Hepburn tours. Thursdays $23 écrivain...) il était défini par son “ Full Estate Tours provide the Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays Anglicité “ bien plus qu’il ne la définissait elle-même. Il fut, en effet, POSTE RESTANTE was staged at the Just minutes from Milwaukee, optimum Ten Chimneys experience, $27 la première vedette populaire, le pre- Theatre du Palais -Royal, Paris Wisconsin, Ten Chimneys, home of and include the three main buildings We will begin taking reservations on mier ambassadeur de la “ Cool Bri- CAST: and grounds of the estate. Guests March 17th, 2002. tannia “. Même avant le scandale Carlotta Gray: Line Renaud Broadway legends and ayant trait à la drogue et au sexe dans Lynn Fontanne, will open for public should allow 2 hours to tour. Group rates are available. You may The Fortes en 1924, ses fans imitaient Sir Hugo Latimer: Jean-Claude Brialy Hilde: Annie Sinigalia tours beginning May 26th, 2003. Main House Tours are offered to call now for group reservations. sa façon de s’habiller et répétaient avec ravissement tout nouveau “ Matteo: Stephane Bari Guests will be treated to one of the those who may have difficulty Ten Chimneys is also the perfect Noëlisme “. Né dans le Middlesex, à most inspirational historic house traversing the full estate or who spot for your special event. Teddington, le 16 décembre 1899, have limited schedules. Main House For more details on these intimate Coward monte sur scène dès l’âge de tours in the country. Almost all of six ans et écrit sa première pièce dix the estate’s enchantingly personal Tour guests should allow 1 1/2 guided tours or our gracious guest ans plus tard. décor and collections are intact and hours to tour. amenities, please call Ten Chimneys unchanged since the Lunts first Guests are welcome to spend Foundation’s Reservation Line at A New-York, en 1921, il prend con- unlimited time enjoying our gracious (262) 968-4110. science du rythme des spectacles de assembled them in the 1930s and Broadway et en injecte la rapidité dans ‘40s. Ten Chimneys is simply guest amenities and interactive Ten Chimneys Foundation le sérieux des drames et musiques overflowing with memorabilia: notes exhibition. PO Box 225, Genesee Depot, WI britanniques, afin de donner une All tours require a significant 53127 poussée de fièvre aux fous de jazz from Laurence Olivier and Charlie et aux cinglés de la danse des années Chaplin, mementos from Helen amount of standing, stair climbing, www.tenchimneys.org including Lords Ned Lathom and ’20. Le style de Noël Coward fut Hayes and Noël Coward, inscribed and walking on uneven terrain. (262) 969-4161 Foundation Office Napier Alington, Ivor Novello and imité partout : les Anglais portaient des robes de chambre. fichaient des first edition books by Edna Ferber Comfortable footwear is a must. (262) 968-4110 Reservation Line Tallulah Bankhead lived the largely cigarettes dans des fume-cigarette Gift to the Lunts from Helen Hayes mock-degenerate lifestyle that démesurés et se donnaient du “ This photograph from the Ten spawned the world of the Flapper.In daaaarling à tout bout de champ. Ses This loving cartoon commemorated revues propageaient le message par Chimneys website shows the Lunts in contrast our event will be a lively their retirement years at Ten Chimneys “the moment when the two most des chansons senti-mentales (Room beautiful people in the world become but hardly hedonistic affair! Lunch n it/i a mien. I’ll see ron again...) et in 1972. satiriques (Mati Doôs and Englishmen, the most beautiful at The Ivy (12.30 for 1.00 pm) will Dont put vola’ daughter on the stage, theatre in the be followed, by Lorna Dallas Mrs Worthington... ) world.” The singing songs from the Coward original is at Ten collection, accompanied by Jason Sa célébrité, entre les deux Chimneys. Carr plus a noted speaker on Noel guerres, atteignit lin point Coward. Then a short walk to the culminant avec Private Theatre Museum to a celebration of Coward with Rexton Bunnett. The Lires en 1930, époque à cost for the whole day is £75. Non laquelle il était devenu UK members can download an l’auteur dramatique event form (Feb+ 2003.pdf) from gagnant le plus d’argent the Members’ Area at our website dans le monde occidental. www.noelcoward.net . Page 14 Page 3 and not acting school. Playing to ‘Oh, I’ll just go out and cut the public performance, they’re Michael Imison reflects in this anniversary year. Noël Coward and Illness... audiences, however badly, show.’ I’m unable to do it. bores! At this time 30 years ago Noël Me and the Girls I wish to Christ I hadn’t started however corny... NOEL Can’t do it - any more than JUDY They receive so much Coward was already feeling the Tuesday to write at all this morning, I was JUDY Trial and error, trial and at a rehearsal I can ‘walk approval and love (and for effects of what was to be his final I like looking at mountains feeling fine when I woke up, and error... through.’ God’s sake, that’s what we’re all illness. because they keep changing, if now, by doing all this thinking NOEL And you see, when I see her JUDY I really use my voice so looking for in life). And they I know, because he had come to you know what I mean; not only back and remembering and appearing with the authority of a stupidly because I cannot walk receive it every night, if they’re London and I, as a recent recruit to the colours change at different wondering, I’ve got myself into a great star now - as long as she’s through the rehearsal. , they receive love and Van Loewen’s agency, had expected times of the day but the shapes state of black depression and it’s not in one of her ‘cow-like’ NOEL But do you know why? Do applause and if they insist on to see him, only to be told that he seem to alter too. I see them no use pretending I haven’t. As moods - I know that every single you know the psychological reason leaving the stage -1 did this for was too exhausted to meet me but first when I wake up in the a matter of fact it’s no use heartbreak she had when she for this is that if you walk through many years, I was the most was going to Jamaica to convalesce morning and Sister Dominique pretending ever about anything, was a little girl, every number a rehearsal ‘marking,’ you are not awful bore - I went off the stage and I could meet him the next time pulls up the blind. She’s a dear about getting to the top, or your that was taken away from her, giving what you’re going to give and I’d go into my own little he came. Coward had fought back old camp and makes clicking luck turning, or living, or dying. every disappointment she had, and this affects you. We can all shell and remember all the from illness before so no-one noises with her teeth. The blind It always catches up with you in went to make this authority. understand that you’re just miserable things and how tragic suspected there would not be a next rattles up and there they are the the end. I don’t even feel like JUDY Exactly. It truly is worth it walking through but you are not - and it wasn’t tragic at all. I time. mountains I mean. There was crying which is funny because I when you can walk out and really rehearsing. Because it pulls was just a damn bore. And I By all accounts Coward bore illness fresh snow on them this morning, am a great crier as a rule when handle hundreds of people and you down. You might just as well think that anyone who clings to with fortitude, even cheerfulness but that is on the highest peaks and things get bad. It’s a sort of make them enjoy themselves. And not be there. If you come out and this is a poseur. I think they’re even he must have had his darker they looked very near in the relief and eases the nerves. Now it’s only something you can learn do the part you’re rehearsing - full acting for themselves, 1 think moments. Some evidence can be clear air, blue and pink as if I couldn’t squeeze a tear out if through heartbreak... out - wrong, maybe, but full out - it’s self-pity and there’s nothing drawn from his writing on the someone had painted them, you paid me. That really is funny. NOEL Nobody can teach you, no you learn your mistakes. But if more boring than self-pity. subject. First a poem: rather like those pictures you Sort of frightening. That’s the lot correspondence courses, no you’re only marking it, you haven’t NOEL And it’s a very great Convalescence see in frame shops in the King’s for today anyway. rehearsals in the studios. I assure come out and you haven’t shown temptation when you’re a great To have been a little ill Road, bright and a bit common you I would never have been a yourself what’s wrong and what’s star and you know you have an To relax but pretty. I like to think that the view of success at the Cafe de Paris or at right. enormous amount of To have Glucose and Bemax mountains was inspired by the view Las Vegas if it hadn’t been for JUDY I’m asking this because responsibility, you are liable to To be still. Today was the day when they all from Coward’s home in Les Avants, three years singing to troops. I’ve never done an acting part fall into the trap of self-pity. came in: Doctor Pierre and which looks across Lake Lucerne to Because very often the troops on the stage. I’ve only sung on Somebody else doesn’t please To feel definitely weak Sister Francoise and the other the French Alps, which do change didn’t wish to see me at all. They the stage. I’ve acted in the movies, you or something, you’ve been On a diet professor with the blue chin and their aspect from hour to hour. It would have loved to have seen so I’ve never had a chance to go made such a fuss of that you To be ordered to be quiet, a gleam in his eye, quite a dish can of course be very dangerous to Marlene, they would have loved to through a rehearsal, an acting make a scene that is quite Not to speak. really he is, hairy wrists but assume that a fictional character is have seen a glamorous lady or rehearsal on stage. And I hope unnecessary. If you’re an lovely long slim hands. He was simply the author in disguise but I a comic who could drop his someday... ordinary human being working To skim through the morning news, the one who actually did the have to assume that Coward did pants and get a laugh. They NOEL Oh, wouldn’t that be in an office every day, you To have leisure, operation. I could go for him in a have his moments of despair even if didn’t want to see me coming on wonderful? wouldn’t be like that. It’s only The ineffable, warm pleasure big way if I was well enough but in reality he took care not to show it and being sophisticated. But I JUDY Don’t give me that ‘Wouldn’t that you’ve got to watch your Of a snooze. I’m not and that’s that, nor am I as the poem above amply illustrates. also knew that if I played down that be wonderful!’ You’ve own legend and see that you likely to be for a long time. It’s to them and altered my material, promised me for years! stay clear and simple. they would see through it. So I NOEL The race is to the swift. In JUDY But you’ve always done To have cooling things to drink, going to be a slow business… Michael Imison Fresh Spring Flowers, had to make them like what I our profession the thing that this. Now, I’ve known you for To have hours and hours and hours Monday was doing. And on the whole I counts is survival. It’s many years and you’ve always Just to think. …I must say I’m not one to succeeded. Not always. I had a comparatively easy if you have done it. You are a terribly wise complain much as a rule. I’ve few bad moments. Sometimes it talent - comparatively easy to man who, in spite of many To have been a little ill had my ups and downs and it’s all would take me about twenty have a success. But what is really talents and brilliance and so To have time part of life’s rich pattern as some minutes to get them. difficult is to hold it over a forth, you have kept your mind To invent a little rhyme silly bitch said when we’d just JUDY Have you ever cheated an period of years, to keep up there, in complete order and your To be still. been booed off the stage by audience? I bet you never have. to maintain what you’ve emotions in order. You have some visiting marines in Port NOEL How do you mean? established. You see, nowadays, great style and great taste. Were To have no one that you miss Said. All the same one can’t go JUDY I mean, when you are when everything is promotion you ever inclined to fall into This is bliss! on being a cheery chappie for terribly successful, when you are and the smallest understudy has self-pity? In contrast to this are a couple of ever can one? I mean there are going well and you’re working a personal manager and an NOEL Oh, yes. passages from his short story Me moments when you have to look Poem Collected Verse, © Methuen very hard and you have a agent rooting for her and a JUDY Oh good, that makes me And The Girls in which the facts in the face and not go on 1984 & The Estate of Noel Coward difficult programme - like you seven-year contract with feel much better! Me and the Girls manager of a dance troupe finds kidding yourself, and this, as far had in Las Vegas. And two a somebody, they don’t have time to Transcription taken from: Pretty Polly Barlow © Heinemann himself in a Swiss clinic being as I’m concerned, is one of them. night. If you had a bad throat, learn their job ... If they allow ‘My Life With Noel Coward’ 1964 & The Estate of Noel Coward ©1994 Graham Payn and Barry Day operated on for cancer. did you ever think to yourself - that to interfere with their Page 4 Page 13 your family involved in the JUDY So I’ve taken them along. clever and hip and she’s such a This piece from the New York and his unlikely mistress still hasn’t the authentic sex appeal, and theatre? They’ve been on stage with me, great actress that we don’t know Times rates Private Lives amongst been given its ideal production, but it subliminal pain, to a show usually NOEL Nobody. Except my they’ve been in the wings, and I what we’re going to do with her. the 10 best moments on Broadway raised questions few mainstream presented, with excesses of drollery, father. He was in the piano don’t know if they’ll become I just know that she’s going to in 2002 playwrights dare to ask. It also as a tarted-up old coquette. business - he used to sell entertainers. I think my oldest turn into something rather allowed Sally Field, as a contained pianos. But otherwise they girl is fairly talented. important. I don’t know what it THEATER: THE YEAR woman driven to murderous didn’t know anything about it. I NOEL If she’s really talented, she will be but it will be something extremes of passion, to make a was taken to the theatre when I ought to do it. rather startling and flamboyant. IN REVIEW smashing Broadway debut in the was five years old and it was JUDY Yes, she’s really quite NOEL She’ll be a waitress, production’s second cast. my birthday treat. Every 16th of amazing. I think actresses who say probably! THE CRITICS December I used to be taken to ‘Mother’s going out tonight’ and JUDY Now, Liza has my kind of 10 MOMENTS; 5. ‘HAIRSPRAY’ A John Waters a theatre. I was given a toy ‘Don’t photograph my children’ cow-like, going-along quality. cult film is dragged into the theatre for Christmas by my have children who will end up NOEL Is this an accurate Puccini, mainstream without losing its fizzy mother. She loved the theatre, thinking that maybe Ma doesn’t description? This ‘cow-like Pop flavor or offbeat sweetness. you see, and I was wildly want any attention taken away going-along’ at Carnegie Hall? Euripides,Waters It’s the broad-based hit that New enthusiastic about it and so from her. This ‘cow-like going-along’ at And Joel, York needed after ‘’The 9. THE SONDHEIM that’s how it all started. But the NOEL And also the children might the Palladium? Producers.’’ CELEBRATION The most reason that I went on to the adore being exposed. Why not JUDY Between working times I just Reimagined ambitious — and successful — stage was that I was set to go enjoy themselves? sit... presentation ever of one into the Chapel Royal choir, JUDY I think it’s fun for NOEL Chewing the cud? Crying By BEN BRANTLEY composer’s work for the musical because I had a perfectly children to go to the theatre, if a little from time to time? Here, in strictly alphabetical theater. Though not all of its beautiful voice. I suppose the you have a good steady JUDY Oh, weeping all the time. order, are 10 shows that left productions were equal, the inherent acting in me headed its relationship with them and if your Terribly important... impressions that have yet to blur celebration, at the Kennedy Center ugly rear, because I did home life with them is a good NOEL Judy started the other in memory: in Washington, uncovered Gounod’s ‘There is a Green Hill one... morning in floods of tears, previously hidden virtues in what Far Away’ - and I tore myself to NOEL If you are the daughter of because the weather was so bad 1. ‘LA BOHÈME’ The 21st- are surely the best interpretations to shreds. I made Callas look like an actress, you’ve got to take it on and she finished in floods of tears century director Baz Luhrmann date of ’s an amateur! And the poor man, the jaw - then you’ve got to because the party was so hot. meets the 19th-century composer “Company’’ and “Passion.’’ And the organist fell back in horror. I understand that you are the JUDY I’m surprised you didn’t go Giacomo Puccini, and they soar off Amon Miyamoto’s splendid “Pacific gave it the expression. I did the daughter of an actress and you along with me in floods of tears. together into an enchanted land in Overtures’’ for the New National whole crucifixion bit. And they grow up in the atmosphere. NOEL Wait a minute - I finished which people are eternally young Theater, Tokyo (also seen as part of turned me down because I was JUDY And, you know, it isn’t a in floods of tears. and in love, which means eternally the Lincoln Center Festival 2002), over-dramatic. And I was only nine bad atmosphere - I wouldn’t have JUDY Did you, darling? After happy and miserable at the same 6. ‘MEDEA’ The actress Fiona allowed Western audiences a and a half with an Eton collar, traded it in for anything in the we left you? time. When was the last time a Shaw and the director Deborah privileged (and dizzying) glimpse of going ‘There was no other good world. Liza has been exposed to NOEL Oh yes, I was so Broadway show had audiences Warner reinvent Euripides’ play as a Western musical about the East enough to pay the price of sin...’ all of the best of theatre. I wasn’t. exhausted - I think it was all crying this hard? a devastating study in fame, lust and as seen through Eastern eyes. I did the whole lot. So then Mother I was in vaudeville - not good those Shriners, really. I thought it madness in the age of the National was very very cross and said the vaudeville. I came in after the was a very enjoyable party but 2. ‘DEF POETRY JAM’ Which Enquirer, when private breakdowns, 10. ‘TOPDOG/UNDERDOG’ man was common and stupid Orpheum time and before there were far too many people. actually makes Broadway look cool breakups and humiliations have Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize- anyway. Then we saw an ad in television. So there was nothing And I was slightly proud that to theatergoers under 40 and proves become public rituals. winning drama of race, brotherhood the papers for a ‘handsome, very inspiring about that. But the enormous picture of George that poetry can be as kinetic, and deception, in which all the talented boy’ and she looked at she has grown up with the best. Washington had been taken off the exhibitionistic and pulse-racing as a 7. ‘MOVIN’ OUT’ Is Twyla world is a con game. Directed with me and said, ‘Well, you’re Her father (Vincente Minnelli), wall and one of mine substituted. dance routine by Bob Fosse. Tharp’s narrative dance piece about sassy and insightful showmanship talented and maybe you can get who is a very talented man, has They had a picture of me love and death on Long Island, set by George C. Wolfe (who also gave by on looks.’ So off I went and exposed her to the best of it. She looking like a very old bull 3. ‘FAR AWAY’ Caryl Churchill’s to the music of Billy Joel, a proper New York the lively “Harlem Song’’ gave an audition. And that’s how I does have taste. She started to moose blown up in place of elusive and horrifyingly familiar Broadway musical? Who cares, at the Apollo Theater), with Jeffrey got on the stage. dance when she was five. George Washington. In - fable described a world dissolving when it feels this good? Like “La Wright turning in the season’s most JUDY My older girl (Liza) is in NOEL And you encouraged her? considering the Boston Tea Party - into epidemic violence. Staged by Bohème,’’ it connects with its intriguingly multilayered summer stock now. I think it’s JUDY Yes, I did. She’s a brilliant it was really very kind of them. at New York audience on a visceral level, as performance as a black man who rather stupid to be involved in the dancer. I have a second So they’ve obviously forgiven us Theater Workshop, it featured a American musicals commonly did in makes his living by posing as theatre or in movies and just leave daughter (Lorna) who is eight for that now...! superb Frances McDormand as a the mid-20th century. Abraham Lincoln in a shooting your children every night or every and who really is the Gertrude (The conversation moves on to grown-up unable to quell a little gallery. morning and say, ‘I’m going away Lawrence of Hyannisport. She’s Child Stars) girl’s fears. Also notable for the 8. ‘PRIVATE LIVES’ Noël Coward and you mustn’t know where I’m just impossible and the most NOEL When I saw Judy when best use of hats ever in a play. without camp, for a change. In this going, because I don’t want you beautiful creature that has ever she was a little girl - although delectable British import, directed (Our thanks to Barry Day for exposed.’ lived, I think. She’s so shocking she talks about the vaudeville - 4. ‘THE GOAT’ Edward Albee’s by , Lindsay highlighting this piece) NOEL Very sensible. and so bright and so cunning and but that is the way to learn theatre Tony Award-winning tale of a man Duncan and Alan Rickman restored Page 12 Page 5 A NOEL COWARD BIBLIOGRAPHY ... the collector’s starting point ... TAPED INTERVIEW ... with Noel Coward, Judy Garland and Kay Thompson For the first time in Home Chat we have tried to bring together a list of the published works of Noel Coward and some of the notable books about Noel and his work. We fear that it is not complete - and there is certainly no mention of any foreign In the December edition of Home What ensued was a discussion, doctor took my vocal cords and language publications and acting editions published by Samuel French are only mentioned where they are the first or a Chat we talked about a copy of a largely between Judy and himself, threw them up in the air like notable publication. We have tried to include US publishers and any difference in title or version in the US - where they are cassette tape that NCS Member two child prodigies who had ping-pong balls and then said, known to us. I feel sure we will have missed something - so please write and let us know if you can add to the list. Please James Mathieson has sent in, managed in their respective ways ‘You’re not to say one word or note that we have not included details of the presentation copies (usually a 100 in number) often covered in red Moroccan purchased at auction. He wrote: to adapt their precocious talents to even whisper until you’re on.’ leather and/or in slip cases, signed and dedicated. Compiled by John Knowles and Ken Starrett. “As far as I can judge it was a changing world. In what follows And I said, ‘Yes, but what NOVEL made, presumably on a reel to they exchange a few trade happens if I go on and still no POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE Heinemann,1960. reel tape recorder with a single secrets: sound comes out?’ And he said, In the US: Dell Publishing Co., 1960 (Paperback) and E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1982 (Paperback). microphone (and later transferred NOEL Judy and I are very old ‘Something will come out.’ And I SHORT STORIES to cassette) on the afternoon friends. In moments of crisis in my said, ‘But what?’ I went down TO STEP ASIDE Heinemann, 1939. following the Boston opening of life, Judy appears - at my last those stairs - and I’m not, as STAR QUALITY Heinemann, 1951. Sail Away. Judy Garland, Noel opening night in Las Vegas and my you know, over-nervous, PRETTY POLLY BARLOW Heinemann, 1964. and Kay Thompson have been closing night in London... She’s because I can’t afford to be - but I BON VOYAGE Heinemann,1967. marshalled to sit and talk and be a beloved friend of mine. She is was good and nervous then THE COLLECTED STORIES Heinemann, 1962. recorded for posterity.” probably the greatest singer of because I didn’t know what Pomp and Circumstance THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES Dutton, 1983. We promised to provide a transcrip- songs alive. (I’m not so bad sound was going to come out. THE COMPLETE STORIES .Methuen, 1985 (Paperback). tion in the next Home Chat ... well myself when I do my comedy And as I opened my mouth a AUTOBIOGRAPHY as many will have spotted some of numbers!) And we know a great very curious voice was heard PRESENT INDICATIVE Heinemann, 1937 In the US: Doubleday & Company, 1937. the most interesting parts of this deal about our jobs, because we’re that I couldn’t recognise at all. FUTURE INDEFINITE Heinemann, 1954 In the US: Doubleday & Company, 1954. interview are given in Graham Payn very professional. Perhaps we But it went all right. It was AUTOBIOGRAPHY (contains ‘Present Indicative’, ‘Future Indefinite’ and 45 pages of and Barry Day’s book My Life With should talk about that - the way terrible! Then I quickly got into ‘Past Conditional’) Methuen, 1986. Noel Coward. We reprint Part 1 of to handle audiences, the way to some comedy numbers and SATIRE those extracts here, with a promise make ‘em laugh when you want saved myself. A WITHERED NOSEGAY (boards) Christopher’s, 1922. to add Part 2 and any further ‘em and to stop them laughing JUDY It’s good that you can CHELSEA BUNS (boards) Hutchinson, 1925. transcription that is of interest in when you don’t want them to. rely on comedy numbers - I SPANGLED UNICORN Hutchinson, 1932.In the US: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1933. future editions. When you’re professional, you think we’ve managed to save A WITHERED NOSEGAY, CHELSEA BUNS, SPANGLED UNICORN Methuen, 1984. Firstly the introduction from the have to fall back on every trick in ourselves from many years in In the US: Caroll & Graf Publishing, Inc., 1987 (Paperback). book: the book. You have to take the this kind of act. 1 think we In August, 1961, the out-of-town notes you know you can’t hit with POEMS BY HERNIA WHITTLEBOT with an Appreciation by Noel Coward. Private Future Indefinite started at about the same age, Publication printed by John Waddington Ltd. tryout of Sail Away reached the such a radiant smile that they didn’t we? TRAVEL Colonial Theatre, Boston. The think it’s wonderful. NOEL How old were you? AUSTRALIA VISITED Heinemann, 1941. audience glittered. The show did JUDY And also act - cheap JUDY I was two. MIDDLE EAST DIARY Heinemann 1944. In the US: Doubleday, Doran & Company, not and Noel knew he had a lot of acting? NOEL Oh well you’ve beaten 1944. work to do before it reached NOEL ‘Cheap acting’ and also me. I started at the age of ten in VERSE, LYRICS& SKETCHES Broadway. immense calm with your heart the theatre. Before that I was at COLLECTED SKETCHES AND LYRICS Hutchinson, 1931. He would not be allowed to get on pounding. ballet school. THE NOEL COWARD SONGBOOK Michael Joseph, 1953. with it uninterrupted. One of the JUDY When you know you’re JUDY Did you want to be a THE LYRICS OF NOEL COWARD Heinemann, 1965. In the US: Tusk/Overlook, 1983 chores that faces a playwright who is coming to that particular note dancer? (Paperback) and Methuen, 1985 (Paperback) in the creative throes of revision is and you know it’s there and you NOEL Yes, I was a dancer for NOT YET THE DODO Heinemann, 1967. confronting the media. Once the know you can’t avoid it and you quite a while. Fred Astaire did COLLECTED VERSE Methuen, 1984. cry of “Author sighted!” goes up, know you can’t take it an octave two dances for me in 1923. He Day, Barry (Editor): NOEL COWARD, THE COMPLETE LYRICS Methuen, 1998. Chelsea Buns the interviews begin and it’s a down and you know that it’s choreographed one for Gertie In the US: Overlook Press, 1998. brave author indeed who going to sound ghastly. You Lawrence and me and one for PLAYS steadfastly says “No.” Noel knew know twenty-eight bars before me alone. And I was in the I’LL LEAVE IT TO YOU (wrappers) Samuel French, 1920. only too well he needed all the and you get there and it is Charlot Revue. I don’t think he THE RAT TRAP (cloth; no dustjacket) Ernest Benn: ‘Contemporary British Dramatists’ good publicity he could get for his lousy... was very proud of the dances, series, 1924. first original Broadway musical. NOEL ...and you do a gesture because I don’t think they were THE YOUNG IDEA (wrappers) Samuel French, 1924. In the US: (wrappers) Samuel When the reporter arrived, Judy you’ve never done before - of very well executed. French, U.S., 1924. Garland and Kay Thompson were radiant charm! The first night I JUDY Were they well FALLEN ANGELS (cloth; no dustjacket) (also in Paperback) Ernest Benn: ‘Contemporary present. The reporter asked if he opened in the Cafe de Paris in choreographed? British Dramatists’ series, 1924. could use his tape recorder to help London with the whole of NOEL Oh, brilliant. But there THE VORTEX (cloth; no dustjacket) Ernest Benn: ‘Contemporary British Dramatists’ him later with the accuracy of London waiting to see how was a lot of that cane-whacking series, 1925. quotes. Noel agreed, and as the lousy I was going to be - I lost and tum-te-tum... conversation took off in free- my voice completely and for an HAY FEVER (cloth; no dustjacket) Ernest Benn: ‘Contemporary British Dramatists’ series, The Marquise JUDY Was there anybody else in 1925. In the US: Harper, 1925. wheeling style, he forgot its presence. hour before the show my throat Page 6 Page 11 THE QUEEN WAS IN THE PARLOUR (cloth; no dustjacket) Ernest Benn: COWARD ON FILM ... Barry Day’s forthcoming publication will shed light on those early ‘Contemporary British Dramatists series, 1926. Coward filmic moments including The Scoundrel (available on a poor quality video from the US that EASY VIRTUE (cloth; no dustjacket) Ernest Benn: ‘Contemporary British Dramatists’ appears to be a video copy of a screened performance of the film). Dennis Schwartz reviews the film ... series, 1926. This was noted British actor Noël the publisher’s ex-girlfriend, who he mysteriously returns to life as a THIS WAS A MAN Secker, 1926. In the US: Harper, U.S., 1926. Coward’s first starring role in a when asked about the innocent ghost for one month because God SIROCCO Secker, 1927. film. This odd morality play is set in heroine comments that “innocence graced him that time to find one THE MARQUISE (cloth; no dustjacket) Ernest Benn: ‘Contemporary British Dramatists’ the hellish environment of a is an arrested stage of person who will shed a tear over his series, 1927. decadent and pseudo-intellectual development.” Tony’s underling loss — thereby giving his life some HOME CHAT Secker, 1927. New York City publishing house, Jimmy Clay (Cossart) comments, “I meaning. BITTER SWEET Secker, 1929. and is written and directed by Ben dislike New York in the summer, the In his ghostly search for eternal PRIVATE LIVES Heinemann, 1930. In the US: Doubleday & Company, 1930. Hecht and Charles MacArthur. streets look like a socialist picnic.” salvation, he tracks down Cora and POST-MORTEM Heinemann, 1931. In the US: Doubleday & Company, 1931. Tonight At 8.30 It was inspired by Hecht’s earlier Another ex-girlfriend Margie (Hope tries to make amends for his smug CAVALCADE Heinemann, 1932. novel, “Fantazius Mallare.” Williams), when asked about her life by finding some way he can DESIGN FOR LIVING Heinemann, 1933. In the US: Doubleday, U.S.,1933. This unique fantasy film sets an journey crossing the Atlantic to be show that he is capable of loving CONVERSATION PIECE Heinemann, 1934. acerbic atmosphere of backbiting, in New York, states “It was nice - I someone. POINT VALAINE Heinemann, 1935. In the US: Doubleday,1935 hopelessness and meaningless love storms.” The film is both remarkable and TONIGHT AT 8.30 (three volumes) Heinemann, 1936. existence. The film’s climax leaves Into this cynical crowd comes a awful. It succeeds in capturing the OPERETTE Heinemann, 1938. the realistic publishing world and fresh faced 22-year-old poetess, images of a corrupt upper-class PRESENT LAUGHTER Heinemann, 1943. In the US: Doubleday & Company, 1946. enters a metaphorical world of Cora Moore (Haydon), who thinks bunch of sophisticates. But the part Heinemann, 1943. In the US: Samuel French, 1945 and Doubleday spiritual values. Unfortunately this life is wonderful. Tony views her as of redemption was unconvincing & Company, 1947. stagey film that is clever, witty, a challenge, someone that he can and poorly carried out. Yet this BLITHE SPIRIT Heinemann,1942. In the US: Doubleday & Company, 1941 and Samuel bizarre, sophisticated, indulgent, is corrupt. He offers to publish her impudent work had some brains go French , 1941. also a pretentious mess. Though, first book of poems and tries to into its storytelling. PEACE IN OUR TIME Heinemann, 1947. In the US: Doubleday & Company, 1948. the film was able to collect an break up her upcoming marriage to RELATIVE VALUES Heinemann, 1952. Oscar for Best Original Story. her childhood friend Paul Decker Dennis Schwartz: “Ozus’ World QUADRILLE Heinemann, 1952. In the US: Doubleday & Company, 1952. Anthony Mallare (Noël Coward) is (Ridges), not because he loves her Movie Reviews” SOUTH SEA BUBBLE Heinemann, 1956. Suite In Three Keys the scoundrel. The film is based on but because he’s a cad. The NUDE WITH VIOLIN Heinemann,1956. In the US: Doubleday & Company, 1958. the real-life Broadway scoundrel outraged engineer Decker resents The Scoundrel was Coward’s first LOOK AFTER LULU Heinemann, 1959. publisher and playboy Horace the snooty intellectual and his major film made by Paramount in WAITING IN THE WINGS Heinemann, 1960. In the US: Doubleday & Company, 1960 Liveright, who died friendless and pompous crowd and that he stole the USA at the Long Island Studios and Samuel French, 1960. broke. Mallare’s the heartless, self- the girl he worships. But he in 1935. It was shown in New York SUITE IN THREE KEYS Heinemann, 1966. In the US: Doubleday & Company,1967. centered, cynical, wealthy NYC foolishly plays into Tony’s hand by in April 1935, and in London at the SEMI-MONDE Methuen, 2001. publisher who loves to toy with becoming overbearing and goes into Plaza on 23rd May 1935. It was STAR QUALITY Methuen, 2001. Adapted by Christopher Luscombe. other people’s lives and insult those a jealous snit, giving Cora an originally called Miracle on 49th PLAY ANTHOLOGIES under him. He creates a cruel ultimatum to leave the 40-year-old Street and was written and directed THREE PLAYS (contains ‘The Rat Trap’, ‘The Vortex’ and ‘Fallen Angels’, with the workplace environment in which scoundrel or else. She instead by and Charles ‘Author’s Reply to his Critics’). Ernest Benn, 1925. false flattery and self- chooses to be part of Tony’s more McArthur. THREE PLAYS, with a Preface (contains ‘Home Chat’, ‘Sirocco’ and ‘This Was a Man’) congratulations become the rule. exciting lifestyle and becomes his Secker, 1928. In the US: Preface by Arnold Bennett, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. He’s a womanizer who uses women new girlfriend for the next seven A video copy of this film is avail- THREE PLAYS with a Preface (contains ‘Private Lives’, ‘Hay Fever’, and ‘Blithe Spirit’) in the same way he uses the months. able from Ronnie Cramer’s Cult In the US: Preface by Edward Albee, Dell Publishing, 1965 (Paperback) Film Site an Internet presence for authors who work for him, as he Unable to bear that, Decker bursts TONIGHT AT 8:30 - 8 GREAT PLAYS, In the US, New Avon Library, 1943 (Paperback) Play Parade 3 discards them on a whim or out of into Tony’s office and shoots him. Scorched Earth Productions, P.O. BITTER-SWEET and Other Plays (also contains ‘Easy Virtue’ and ‘Hay Fever’, with a boredom. He refuses to publish But a cigarette case stops the Box 101083, Denver, CO 80250. few comments on the younger dramatist by W. Somerset Maugham) Slezack’s second book and the bullet. In this film cigarettes save (Internet address: http:// In the US: Doubleday, 1929. author commits suicide. Tony’s lives. Tony refuses to press sepnet.com/rcramer/drama2.htm) PLAY PARADE Heinemann, 1934. In the US: Garden City Publishing, 1934. bitter comment is that it was a charges, but the unhappy Decker SECOND PLAY PARADE (Heinemann, 1939) foolish effort to call attention to his goes on a drunken binge and is in The Society has no connection CURTAIN CALLS (contains ‘Tonight at 8.30’, ‘Conversation Piece’, ‘Easy Virtue’, ‘Point bad writing. There are many need of $5,000 to be kept out of with this website or the company Valaine’ and ‘This Was a Man’). Doubleday,U.S.,1940 and Garden City Publishing, 1941. hangers-on who can’t stand him, prison. When Cora who has now and cannot vouch for the quality PLAY PARADE VOL. III Heinemann, 1950. but he views them as friends been rejected by Tony for Margie of the videos for sale, the legiti- PLAY PARADE VOL: IV Heinemenn,1954. because they are clever enough to asks him for the money, he turns macy of the copyright or the sales PLAY PARADE VOL. V Heinemann,1958). see through him. It was campy to her down. She then curses him out practices that operate. PLAY PARADE VOL, VI Heinemann, 1962. see Lionel Stander play a poet. and wishes his plane crashes, as Methuen produced a series of (soft-cover) anthologies of plays in 1979: Barry Day’s new book Coward Legendary critic/curmudgeon he’s on his way to Bermuda to PLAYS ONE: Hay Fever, The Vortex, Fallen Angels, Easy Virtue. On Film will be made available Alexander Woollcott can be spotted marry Margie. PLAYS TWO: Private Lives, Bitter-Sweet, The Marquise, Post-Mortem. in a bit part. Martha Sleeper is Julia, The plane he is on does crash, but to members during 2003. Plays One

Page 10 Page 7 PLAYS THREE: Design for Living, Cavalcade, Conversation Piece, and Hands Across BOOKS ABOUT NOEL COWARD the Sea, Still Life, Fumed Oak from To-night at 8.30 Braybrooke, Patrick: THE AMAZING MR COWARD Dennis Archer, 1933 PLAYS FOUR: Blithe Spirit, This Happy Breed, Present Laughter, and Ways and Means, Graecen, Robert: THE ART OF NOEL COWARD Hand & Flower Press, 1953. The Astonished Heart, Red Peppers from To-night at 8.30 Mander, Raymond and Mitchenson, Joe: THEATRICAL COMPANION TO NOEL PLAYS FIVE: Relative Values, Waiting in the Wings, Look After Lulu, Suite in Three COWARD Rockliff,1957. In the US: Macmillan, 1957. Keys Richards, Dick (editor): THE WIT OF NOEL COWARD Leslie Frewin,1968 and Sphere, This was reprinted in 1982 & 1985 and again, with a new introduction in 1989. 1970 (Paperback) This was reprinted in 1991 and again with a new cover design in 1993. Levin, Milton: NOEL COWARD Twayne, U.S., 1968. Revised 1989. The new cover edition was reprinted in 1994, 1995 & 1996. Morley, Sheridan: A TALENT TO AMUSE Heinemann, 1969. In the US: Doubleday & A further series of play anthologies was printed in 1999 as part of Company and Little Brown & Company, 1969 and Pavilion, 1986 (Paperback) THE COWARD COLLECTION produced by Methuen to mark the Centenary of Noel Hadfield, John (editor): COWARDY CUSTARD: THE WORLD OF NOEL COWARD Coward’s birth: Heinemann, 1973. In the US as: A LAST ENCORE: WORDS BY NOEL COWARD COLLECTED PLAYS ONE: Hay Fever, The Vortex, Fallen Angels, Easy Virtue. Collected Plays 7 PICTURES FROM HIS LIFE AND TIMES Little, Brown and Company, 1973. COLLECTED PLAYS TWO: Private Lives, Bitter-Sweet, The Marquise, Post-Mortem Castle, Charles: NOEL 1972) Abacus, 1974 (Paperback) Remembered Laughter/ COLLECTED PLAYS THREE: Design for Living, Cavalcade, Conversation Piece and Ralph Morse, Clarence: MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN: A STUDY OF NOEL The Life of Noel Coward Hands Across the Sea, Still Life, Fumed Oak, from To-night at 8.30. COWARD Emporia, 1975. (US) COLLECTED PLAYS FOUR: Blithe Spirit, Present Laughter, This Happy Breed, and Merchant, William: THE PRIVILEGE OF HIS COMPANY Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Ways and Means, The Astonished Heart, Red Peppers, from Tonight at 8.30 1975.In the US: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1975. COLLECTED PLAYS FIVE: Relative Values, Look After Lulu!, Waiting in the Wings, Lesley, Cole: THE LIFE OF NOEL COWARD Cape,1976. Penguin, 1978 (Paperback). Suite in Three Keys. In the US as: REMEMBERED LAUGHTER, THE LIFE OF NOEL COWARD Knopf, COLLECTED PLAYS SIX: Semi-Monde, Point Valaine, South Sea Bubble, Nude With 1976. Violin. Yarevintelimath, C.R.: JESTING JEREMIAH: A STUDY OF NOEL COWARD’S COLLECTED PLAYS SEVEN: Quadrille, Peace in Our Time, and We Were Dancing, COMIC VISION Karatak University, Dharwad, 1978. Shadow Play, , Star Chamber from Tonight at 8.30. Cole, Lesley: NOEL COWARD AND HIS FRIENDS Weldenfeld & Nicolson,1979. A further series is expected to be published in the near future. In the US: Morrow & Co., 1979. COLLECTED PLAYS EIGHT: I’ll Leave It to You, The Young Idea, and Lahr, John: COWARD THE PLAYWRIGHT Methuen, 1982. Reprinted 1999. This Was a Man Kiernan, Robert F.: NOEL COWARD Ungar, 1986. COLLECTED REVUE SKETCHES AND PARODIES Methuen, 1999 The Noel Coward Gray, Frances: NOEL COWARD Macmillan, 1987. In the US: St. Martin’s Press, 1987. MISCELLANEOUS Diaries Russell, Jacqui (Compiler): FILE ON COWARD Methuen, 1987. THE NOEL COWARD DIARIES Weidenfield & Nicolson,1982. In the US: Little Brown Morley, Sheridan: OUT IN THE MIDDAY SUN: THE PAINTINGS OF NOEL & Company, 1982 and Da Capo Press, 2000 (Paperback) COWARD Phaidon, 1988. A Talent To Amuse (US) REMEMBERING NOEL COWARD Friends of the USC Libraries, University of Southern Briers, Richard: NOEL COWARD & COMPANY Robson Books, 1987 and Future, 1989 (paperback). California, 1981. Citron, Stephen: NOEL & COLE: THE SOPHISTICATES Sinclair-Stevenson,1992. OH COWARD! In the US: Doubleday & Company 1974 In the US: Oxford University Press, 1993. NOEL AND GERTIE, an entertainment devised by Sheridan Morley. Fisher, Clive: NOEL COWARD Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1992. In the US: St Martin’s Press, 1992. , 1997 (Paperback). Cole, Stephen: NOEL COWARD A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY Greenwood Press 1993. SHORT STORIES, SHORT PLAYS AND SONGS BY NOEL COWARD, In the US: Payn, Graham; with Day, Barry: MY LIFE WITH NOEL COWARD Applause, 1994. Dell Publishing 1955 (Paperback) Morella, Joseph; and Mazzei, George: GENIUS & LUST THE CREATIVE AND SEXUAL LIVES OF COLE THE CREAM OF NOEL COWARD selected by Michael Cox, The Folio Society, 1996 PORTER AND NOEL COWARD Robson Books 1995.In the US: Caroll & Graf Publishing, Inc., 1995. MUSIC Castle, Terry: NOEL COWARD & RADCLYFFE HALL, KINDRED SPIRITS Columbia University Press, 1996. Hundreds of copies of sheet music and scores have been published. Salewicz, Chris; Boot, Adrian FIREFLY, NOEL COWARD IN JAMAICA (Victor Gollancz 1999) Notable anthologies are: Mander, Raymond and Mitchenson, Joe: THEATRICAL COMPANION TO NOEL COWARD (Second Edition) THE NOEL COWARD SONG BOOK Michael Joseph, 1953. In the US: Simon & Bitter Sweet Updated by Morley, Sheridan, and Day, Barry. Oberon Books, 2000. Schuster, 1953 and Methuen, 1984 (Paperback) Kaplan, Joel, and Stowell, Sheila: LOOK BACK IN PLEASURE, NOEL COWARD RECONSIDERED Methuen, Snider, Lee (Editor) SIR NOEL COWARD: HIS WORDS AND MUSIC Chappell & Co., 2000. Inc., appr. 1963. In the US: Random House, 1973 Day, Barry (Editor and Annotations): THE UNKNOWN NOEL. NEW WRITING FROM THE NOEL NOEL COWARD GALA: HIS WORDS AND MUSIC - Volume 2 - Snider, Lee (Editor) COWARD ARCHIVE Second Opinion, inc., 2001. NOEL COWARD REDISCOVERED Warner Brothers Publications, 2001. Hoare, Philip, NOEL COWARD - A Biography, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995.In the US, Simon & Schuster, 1995. MUSICALS Mandarin (paperback) 1996. Arrow Books (paperback) 1997. BITTER SWEET Martin Secker, 1929 Morley, Sheridan, THE PRIVATE LIVES OF NOEL AND GERTIE, Oberon Books, 1999 (two biographies, A OPERETTE Heinemann, 1938 Talent to Amuse and A Bright Particular Star combined in one volume) (Paperback). QUOTATIONS Sharland, Elizabeth, THE BRITISH ON BROADWAY, Barbican Press, 1999. Hoare, Philip: THE SAYINGS OF NOEL COWARD Duckworth, 1997 Sharland, Elizabeth, FROM SHAKESPEARE TO COWARD, Barbican Press, 1999. Morley, Sheridan: THE QUOTABLE NOEL COWARD Running Press, 1999 Sharland, Elizabeth, A THEATRICAL FEAST, Barbican Press, 1999. Day, Barry: NOEL COWARD, A LIFE IN QUOTES Metro,1999 Sharland, Elizabeth, LOVE FROM SHAKESPEARE TO COWARD, Applause Books, 1999. Engright, Dominique WICKED WIT OF NOEL COWARD (to be published) Day, Barry: COWARD ON FILM (working title - to be published). Coward The Playwright Please let us know of any corrections and additions - at the usual address.

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