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Chronology of Coward's Plays in Order of Composition

(with first production dates)

1918 The Rat Trap (1926). 1919 I'll Leave it to You (1920). 1920 Barriers Down (unproduced). 1921 The Young Idea (1922), Sirocco (1927), The Better Half(1922). 1922 A Young Man's Fancy (unproduced), The Queen Was in the Parlour (1926), Bottles and Bones and Mild Oats (sketches, 1922). 1923 Calling! (1923), (1924), Fallen Angels (1925), Weatherwise (sketch, 1932). 1924 (1925), Easy Virtue (New York 1925, London 1926). 1925 On With the Dance (1925). 1926 Semi-Monde (1977), This Was a Man (New York 1926), The Marquise (1927). 1927 Pretty Prattle (sketch, 1927), Home Chat (1927). 1928 ! (1928), Concerto (unproduced screenplay). 1929 Bitter-Sweet (1929). 1930 (1930), Post Mortem (1944, POW production), Some Other Private Lives (sketch, 1930). 1931 (1931).

200 Chronology

1932 (New York 1933, London 1939), Words and Music (1932). 1933 Conversation Piece ( 1934). 1934 Point Valaine (1934). 1935 Tonight at 8.30 (ten plays, 1935). 1937 (1938). 1939 (1942), (1942). 1940 Time Remembered (unproduced). 1941 (1941), Screenplay for (1942). 1945 (1945), Pacific I860 (1946). 1946 Peace in Our Time (1947). 1947 Long Island Sound (unproduced). 1949 South Sea Bubble (1956), (1950). 1950 ( 1951). 1951 Quadrille (1952). 1954 (1956). 1956 Volcano (unproduced). 1958 Look after Lulu! (adaptation of Feydeau's Occupe-toi d'Amelie, 1959). 1959 Waiting in the Wings (1960). 1961 (1961, London 1962). 1965 Suite in Three Keys (1966).

(This list does not include adaptations for the screen of his own works, non-dramatic verse, or prose or songs not collected in revues.)

201 References

1. The Mask

1. Play Parade, Vol. I, Heinemann 1934, p. x. 2. Play Parade, Vol. V, Heinemann 1958, p. xxxii. 3. Cole Lesley, The Life of Noel Coward, Jonathan Cape 1976, p. 57. 4. Rose Snider, Satire in the Comedies ofCongreve, Sheridan, Wilde and Coward, Phaeton Press, New York, 1937, p. 116. 5. New York Times, 28 December 1969. 6. Cecil Beaton, Self Portrait with Friends, Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1979, pp. 11-12. 7. Sunday Chronicle, 26 April1925. 8. Future Indefinite, Heinemann 1954, p. 51. 9. John Lahr, Coward the Playwright, Methuen 1982, p. 5. 10. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, Fontana 1970, pp. 232-3. 11. Present Indicative, Heinemann 1937, pp. 200-1. 12. Cyril Connolly, The Dandy, in The Evening Colonnade, David Bruce and Watson 1973, p. 167.

2. Society's Hero

1. The Oxford Book of 20th Century Verse, Ed. Larkin, OUP 1973, p. 320.

202 References

la. , 27 November 1924. 2. Quoted in Richard Findlater, Banned! A Study of Theatrical Censorship in Britain, Macgibbon and Kee 1967, p. 77. 3. Foreword, Mander and Mitchenson, Musical Comedy, Davies, 1969. 4. How I Write my Songs, reprinted Noel Coward and His Friends ed. Lesley, Payn and Morley, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979, p. 67. 5. Ivor Brown, The Rise and Fall of the Matinee Idol, ed. Curtis, New English Library 1976, p. 35. 6. Quoted Cole Lesley, The Life ofNoel Coward, Cape 1976, p. 434. 7. Mander and Mitchenson, A Theatrical Companion to Coward, Rockliff 1957, p. 145. 8. Present Indicative, Heinemann 1937, p. 121. 9. Play Parade II, Heinemann 1939, p. ix. 10. Wilfred Owen, Poems, Chatto and Windus, 1920. Preface. 11. Alan Jenkins, The Twenties, Heinemann 1974, p. 5. 12. Owen, op. cit., The Parable of the Old Manandthe Young, p. 57. 13. Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies, Eyre Methuen 1961, p. 129. 14. Quoted Margaretson, The Long Party, Saxon House, Farnborough, 1974, p. 52. 15. James Agate, Saturday Review, 17 February 1923. 16. Play Parade I, Heinemann 1934, p. xi. 17. The Author's Reply to his Critics, Introduction to Three Plays, Benn, 1925, p. ix. 18. Quoted Charles Castle, Noel, W. H. Allen 1974, p. 65. 19. St. John Irvine, Observer, 27 November 1927. 20. Play Parade II, Heinmann 1939, p. ix. 21. New York Times, 8 December 1925. 22. John Russell Taylor, The Rise and Fall of the Well-Made Play, Methuen 1967, p. 139.

3. Consider the Audience ...

1. Emlyn Williams, Foreword, The Turbulent Thirties, Mander and Mitchenson, Macdonald 1960, p. 9. 2. Eagleton, Exiles and Emigres, Chatto and Windus 1970, p. 73. 3. Quoted in Parker, The Story and the Song, Elm Tree Books 1979, p. 82. 4. Mander and Mitchenson, Theatrical Companion to Coward, op. cit., p. 143. 5. Play Pictorial, vol. lv, no. 330. 6. Sketch, 30 March 1938. 7. Present Indicative, p. 304.

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8. Present Indicative, p. 401. 9. Rene Cutforth, Later Than We Thought, David and Charles 1976, p. 34. 10. Mander and Mitchenson, Theatrical Companion to Coward, op. cit., p. 195. 11. Play Parade IV, Heinemann 1954, p. x. 12. lvor Brown, Observer, 12 January 1936. 13. Janet Flanner ('Genet') London Was Yesterday, Michael Joseph 1970, p. 140. 14. Sunday Times, 15 January 1961. 15. Present Indicative, p. 117. 16. Sellars and Yeatman, /066 and All That, Methuen 1930, p. vii. 17. Quoted , A Talent to Amuse, Penguin 1974, pp. 184-5. 18. Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1931. 19. Play Parade I, Heinemann 1934, p. x. 20. Present Indicative, p. 270. 21. Documentary News Letter, Vol. I, 1944.

4. 'I've Had to Formulate a Creed ... '

1. William Marchant, The Privilege of his Company, Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1975, p. 19. 2. The Noel Coward Diaries, ed. Payn and Morley, Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1982, p. 36, 26 July 1945. 3. Diaries, p. 179, 25 October-! November 1951. 4. Diaries, p. 448, 11 September 1960. 5. , Tynan on Theatre, Pelican 1964, p. 31. 6. John Whiting, Coward Cruising, The London Magazine, vol. 2 no. 5 p. 64. 7. John 0' London's Weekly, 14 December 1951. 8. Diaries, p. 454, 16 December 1960. 9. Diaries, p. 409, 5 May 1959. 10. Diaries, p. 380, 25 May 1958. 11. John Raymond, Play, Orchestra, Play, vol. LIV 25 October 1958. 12. Quoted Noel Coward and his Friends, ed. Payn and Morley, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1979, p. 178. 13. The Scratch and Mumble School, Sunday Times, 22 January 1961. 14. These Old-fashioned Revolutionaries, Sunday Times, 15 January 1961. 15. Sunday Times, 22 January 1961. 16. Sunday Times, 22 January 1961.

204 References

17. Collected Short Stories, Methuen 1962, p. 483. 18. Collected Short Stories, p. 429. 19. , 8 September 1960. 20. , 8 September 1960. 21. Sunday Times, 11 September 1960. 22. Diaries, p. 447. 11 September 1960. 23. Diaries, p. 497, 19 February 1962. 24. John Whiting, Coward Cruising. 25. Quoted Morley, A Talent to Amuse, p. 367. 26. Diaries, p. 679, 31 December 1969, the final entry. 27. Diaries, p. 512, 28 August 1962. 28. John Russell Taylor, The Rise and Fall of the Well-made Play, Methuen 1967, p. 144. 29. Diaries, p. 601, 23 June 1965. 30. Diaries, p. 452, 11 November 1960. 31. E.g., The Times, 15 April1966. 32. Lahr, Coward the Playwright, p. 159. 33. Quoted Lahr, Coward the Playwright, p. 159. 34. D. A. N. Jones, New Statesman, vo!. 71. p. 623, 26 April1966. 35. New Statesman, 26 April 1966.

5. Mainly about Style

1. Kenneth Tynan, Tynan on Theatre, Pelican 1964, p. 288. 2. Terence Rattigan, Noel Coward: An Appreciation of his work in the Theatre, Preface, Mander and Mitchenson, Theatrical Companion to Coward, Rackliff 1957, p. 6. 3. Quoted Morley, A Talent to Amuse, Penguin 1974, p. 362. 4. Coward interviewed by Walter Harris on Talking About Theatre, Decca PLP 1138. 5. Tynan, Some Notes on Stage Sexuality, op. cit., p. 325. 6. Noel Coward talks to Robert Muller, Harper's Bazaar, August 1960. 7. Play Parade I, Heinemann 1934. 8. Christopher Isherwood, The World in the Evening, Methuen 1954. 9. Mark Booth, Camp, Quartet 1983, p. 17. 10. Quoted John Lahr, Prick Up Your Ears, Penguin 1980, p. 127. 11. Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, Eyre and Spottiswoode 1967, p. 286. 12. John Lahr, Coward the Playwright, Methuen 1982, p. 5. 13. Present Indicative, Heinemann 1937, p. 373. 14. William Marchant, The Privilege ofhis Company, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1975, p. 137.

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15. Kenneth Tynan, Tynan on Theatre, p. 287. 16. Noel Coward, A Withered Nosegay, 1922, reprinted Methuen 1984, p. 104. 17. , Confessions of an Actor, Coronet 1984, p. 70. 18. Diaries, p. 581, 11 November 1964. 19. John Russell Taylor, The Rise and Fall of the Well Made Play, Methuen 1967, p. 140. 20. Quoted Kenneth Muir, The Comedy of Manners, Hutchinson 1970, p. 23. 21. George Meredeth, On the Idea of Comedy, Collected Works vol. xxxii, Constable and Co. 1898, p. 46. 22. Andrew Britton, Comedy and Male Desire, Tyneside Cinema Publications, Newcastle, 1983. 23. Roland Barthes, Barthes on Barthes, Tr. Howard, Macmillan 1977, p. 62.

6. Five Comedies

1. Not Yet the Dodo and Other Verses, Heinemann 1967, p. 34. 2. Graves and Hodge, The Long Weekend, Four Square 1961, p. 143. 3. Sheridan Morley, A Talent to Amuse, Penguin 1974, p. 388. 4. Cole Lesley, The Life of Noel Coward, Jonathan Cape 1976, p. 139. 5. Present Indicative, Heinemann 1937, p. 393. 6. Present Indicative, p. 395. 7. Sheridan Morley, , Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1981, p. 101. 8. New Statesman, vol. 36, 11 December 1930. 9. Weekend Review, 4 October 1930. 10. Play Parade I, Heinemann 1934, p. xvii. 11. Observer, 29 January 1939. 12. Observer, 29 January 1939. 13. John Lahr, Coward the Playwright, Methuen 1982, p. 85. 14. John Lahr, Coward the Playwright, p. 82. 15. Present Indicative, pp. 158-9. 16. Maurice Zolotow, Stagestruck, Heinemann 1965, p. 132. 17. O'Neill, Strange Interlude, Jonathan Cape 1928, p. 112. 18. The Times, 26 January 1939. 19. Sheridan Morley, Review Copies, Robson 1974, p. 220. 20. The Noel Coward Diaries, Payn and Morley, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1982, p. 6, April 1941. 21. Gareth Lloyd Evans, The Language of Modern Drama, Dent 1977, p. 29.

206 References

22. Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Penguin 1973, p. 717. 23. Lahr, Coward the Playwright, p. 32. 24. Sunday Times, 29 January 1961.

7. Afterword

1. Cosmopolitan, November 1985. 2. Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Moscow 1844, p. 101.

207 Bibliography

I. Collected plays Play Parade I (Cavalcade, Design for Living, Bitter-Sweet, Private Lives, Hay Fever, The Vortex, Post Mortem), (Heinemann 1934). Play Parade II (This Year of Grace!, Words and Music, Operette, Conversation Piece, Easy Virtue, Fallen Angels), (Heinemann 1939). Play Parade III (The Queen was in the Parlour, I'll Never Leave You, Sirocco, The Young Idea, The Rat Trap, This Was a Man, Home Chat, The Marquise), (Heinemann 1950). Play Parade IV (Tonight at 8.30, Present Laughter, This Happy Breed), (Heinemann 1954). Play Parade V (Blithe Spirit, Peace in Our Time, Quadrille, Relative Values, ), (Heinemann 1958). Play Parade VI (Point Valaine, Ace of Clubs, South Sea Bubble, Nude with Violin, Waiting in the Wings), (Heinemann 1962).

Eyre Methuen Master Playwrights collection in five volumes contains: Plays One: Hay Fever, The Vortex, Fallen Angels, Easy Virtue. Plays Two: Private Lives, Bitter-Sweet, The Marquise, Post-Mortem. Plays Three: Design for Living, Cavalcade, Conversation Piece, Tonight at 8.30 [. Plays Four: Tonight at8.30 II, Blithe Spirit, Present Laughter, This Happy Breed. Plays Five: Relative Values, Waiting in the Wings, Look After Lulu, Suite in Three Keys, ed. Mander and Mitchenson (Eyre Methuen 1979).

208 Bibliography II. Other work by Noel Coward Present Indicative (Heinemann 1937), and Future Indefinite (Heinemann 1954). The Noel Coward Diaries, ed. Payn and Morley, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1982). Collected Short Stories (Methuen 1983). Pomp and Circumstance (novel, Methuen 1983). The Lyrics of Noel Coward (Methuen 1983). Not Yet the Dodo and Other Verses (Heinemann 1967). A Withered Nosegay: Three Cod Pieces (Methuen 1984).

III. Books about Noel Coward The best biographical accounts are The Life of Noel Coward by Cole Lesley, Coward's secretary and companion (Jonathan Cape 1976), and Sheridan Morley's A Talent to Amuse (Penguin 1974). Additional useful photographic material can be found in Noel by Charles Castle (W. H. Allen 1972) and Noel Coward and his Friends, ed. Lesley, Payn and Morley (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1979). The most valuable reference book is Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson's Theatrical Companion to Coward (Rockliff 1957), indispensable to any study of Coward. There is, unfortunately a considerable lack of good critical books on Coward; there are passing references in most books on modern theatre and some early studies of his work, but few detailed critical studies of the entire oeuvre. Any book on Coward at present will therefore, inevitably, incur a great debt to the work of John Lahr, whose study Coward the Playwright (Methuen 1982) is the latest and the best to put forward a coherent thesis about Coward's work.

209 Index

Agate, James 32, 178 Benjamin, Walter 12 Allen, Adrienne 119, 154 Bergson, Henri 153 All Quiet on the Western Front Between the Acts (Woolf) 76 (Remarque) 49 Beveridge Report 82 Animal Crackers 160 Birthday Party, The (Pinter) Archer, William 23 94 Arden, John 94, 95 Blakemore, Michael 168 Arlen, Michael 29 Booth, Mark 121 Artaud, Antonin 105 Bolt, Robert 195 Auden, W. H. 50, 130 Braithwaite, Lilian 36 Brecht 19,21,51,86,92, 93, Baldwin, Stanley 49 105 Barker, Harley Granville 20 Brett, Jeremy 168 Barrets of Wimpole Street, Bridie, James 85 The (Besier) 51 Brien, Alan 111 Barrie, J. M. 169 Brighton Rock (Greene) 130 Barthes, Roland 145-6 Britton, Andrew 143 Baudelaire 10 Brown, Ivor 22, 57-8, 64, Beaton, Cecil 7 156-7 Beaumont, Hugh ('Binkie') 84 Burton, Richard 66 Beckett, Samuel 5, 92, 147- 8, 150, 169 Calthrop, Gladys 18, 70, Behan, Brendan 92 127, 128, 166

210 Index Careless Rapture (Novello) (Tonight at 52 8.30) 61, 62 Chanel 28 Hands Across the Sea Charlot, Andre 34, 117, 125 (Tonight at 8.30) 61 Chamberlain, Joseph 77 Hay Fever 5, 6, 14-15, 22- Clare, Mary 75 3,34,40,51, 106,107, Chekhov 19 125, 127, 134-6, 178- Churchill, Winston 8, 83 88, 190 Cochran, C. B. 21, 70, 117 Home Chat 44 Comedy of Errors, The 171 I'll Leave it to You 31 Congreve, William 6, 123, In Which We Serve 78-80, 127, 138 82,86,168-9 Conrad, 28 Last Trick, The 25 Constant Nymph, The London Calling! 34, 125, (Kennedy) 29 152 106 Look after Lulu ( Occupe- Coward, Noel toi d'Amelie) 171 PLAYS AND SCREENPLAYS: Marquise, The 44 Ace of Clubs 88 Nude with Violin 11, 88 Astonished Heart, The On with the Dance 34, 40, (Tonight at 8.30) 61, 46-7 63-4 Operette 57-8, 104 Bitter-Sweet 8, 9, 12, 47, Pacificl860 87 53-7 Peace in our Time 86-7 Blithe Spirit 5, 11, 104, Point Valaine 1, 11, 59-61 105, 125, 127, 168-77 Post Mortem 12, 21, 49, (Still Life) 68-9 (Tonight at 8.30) 64-7 Present Laughter 5, 15, 19, Cavalcade 12, 21, 27, 48, 96, 105, 111, 123, 125- 69-77, 78, 115, 196 45 passim, 188-95 Come into the Garden, Private Lives 5, 6, 9-11, Maud (Suite in Three 47,51,52,58,67,88, Keys) 107 91, 104, 105, 115, 119, Conversation Piece 57, 104 120, 125-45 passim, Design for Living 5, 11, 146-57, 164, 167, 169, 52,58, 105,125,129, 198 139, 144, 157-68 Quadrille 88 Easy Virtue 11, 34, 40-4 Queen was in the Parlour, Fallen Angels 7, 34, 40, The 44 121-2, 183 Rat Trap, The 30-2

211 Index

Coward, Noel- continued SONGS: PLAYS AND Dance Little Lady 46-7 SCREENPLAYS- continued Don't Let's Be Beastly to (Tonight at the Germans 80 8.30) 61-2 I'll Follow My Secret Heart Relative Values 83, 88--91 57 Sail A way 104 I'll See You Again 57, 130 Semi-Monde 15, 45-6 I Wonder What Happened (Tonight at to Him? 132, 137 8.30) 62, 63, 136 Mad Dogs and Englishmen Shadows of the Evening 131-2, 133 (Suite in Three Keys) Parisian Pierrot 34, 118 107 Poor Little Rich Girl 39-40 Sirocco 13, 33-4, 44-5, 59, Someday I'll Find You 130 109 Stately Homes of England, Song at Twilight, A (Suite in The 133 Three Keys) 15, 106-12 Three Juvenile Delinquents South Sea Bubble 11, 87- 88 8, 115 Twentieth Century Blues Still Life (Tonight at 8.30) 48--9, 75 64-7 see also Brief OTHER: Encounter Present Indicative 8, 14, Suite in Three Keys 106-7, 25, 78, 159 195 Play Parade (Prefaces) This Happy Breed 14, 77- One 3, 157 8,96 Four 61 This Was a Man 44 Pomp and Circumstance This Year of Grace 46 104 Tonightat8.30 61-7,104 Star Quality 96-8 Vortex, The 11, 12, 14, 18-- Withered Nosegay, A 134 19,29,34-9,45,51, Cutforth, Rene 58 91, 92,98, 105,118,183 Wailing in the Wings 83, Dancing Years, The 98--104 (Novello) 52 Ways and Means (Tonight Daily Mail 27, 98 at8.30) 61 Daily Telegraph 76-7 (Tonight Day-Lewis, Cecil 50 at 8.30) 61 Delaney, Shelagh 92, 93, 95 Young Idea, The 5, 31-3, Devils, The (Whiting) 105 178 Devine, George 92

212 Index Devine, Lauri 46 Haigh, Kenneth 92 Dobr~e, Bonamy 140 Hammond, Kay 176 Dog Beneath the Skin, The Hannele 21 (Auden & Isherwood) Hare, Robertson 51 50 Harrison, Rex 177 Doll's House, The (Ibsen) Hauptmann 21 18,20 Hawks, Howard 142-4 Hawtrey, Charles 12, 21-2, Eagleton, Terry 50 96 Edward VIII 52 Hecht and MacArthur 1 Eliot, T. S. 148 Hepburn, Katharine 142 Elsie, Lily 12 Hitchcock, Alfred 169 Evans, Edith 51, 188 H. M. Tennent Ltd 84 Hobson, Harold 98 Feydeau 171 Huxley, Aldous 28, 148 Field, Lila 21 Film (Beckett) 150 Ibsen 19, 20 die Fledermaus 53 Illustrated London News 27- Fontanne, Lynn 159-60 8, 70, 77 Freud 28 Importance of Being Earnest, The 171 "Genet" (Janet Flanner) 67 Irvine, StJohn 40, 46 George and Margaret 51 Isherwood, Christopher 120, 40, 44, 67 125 Ghosts (Ibsen) 35, 36 Italian Job, The 3 Gielgud, John 51, 96, 183 Gilbert and Sullivan 21 Glamorous Night (Novello) James, Henry 20 52 Jellicoe, Ann 198 Goethe 109 Johnson, Celia 66 Goldfish, The 21 Johnson, Richard 177 Goodbye To All That Johnson over Jordan (Graves) 49 (Priestley) 169 Goodbye to Berlin Jones, Henry Arthur 20 (Isherwood) 50 Journey's End (Sheriff) 49, Grant Cary 142-3 68 Graves, Robert 148 Joyce, James 5, 148 Green Hat, The (Arlen) 6, 29 Guiness, Alec 51 Kaufman and Hart 50-1 Guys and Dolls 88 Kelly, Grace 89

213 Index Kennedy, Margaret 29 de Mille, Agnes 153 Knack, The (Jellicoe) 198 Miller, Gilbert 25 Molyneux 28, 128, 150 Labiche 171 Morley, Sheridan 8, 168, 209 Lady Chatterley's Lover Mountbatten, Edwina 61 (Lawrence) 108 Mountbatten, Louis 78, 79 Lady Frederick (Maugham) Mrs Miniver 80 38, 186 Mrs Warren's Profession 20, Lahr, John 6, 11, 11G--11, 35 126-7, 192-3, 209 Muller, Robert 98 Lawrence D. H. 28 Lawrence, Gertrude 34, 51, New Statesman, The 85-6, 93 61,98, 128,133-4,149, New Yorker, The 67 151-4, 160 New York Times 7, 41 Lawrence, T. E. 151 Novello, lvor 33, 44, 51-2 Lean, David 64-6, 80 Lecoq 21 Observer, The 51, 158 Lehar 52 O'Casey, Sean 51, 85 Lesley, Cole 117, 209 Occupe-toi d'Amelie (Look Levin, Bernard 98 after Lulu) 171 Littler, Prince 84 O'Connor, Una 75 Littlewood, Joan 92 Offenbach 21 Lloyd Evans, Gareth 169 Oh! Coward! 106 Look Back in Anger Olivier, Laurence 51, 119, (Osborne) 92-3 135, 154 Loren, Sophia 66 O'Neill, Eugene 16G--2 Love for Love 138 Orton, Joe 4, 123-4, 171, Lunt, Alfred 6G--1, 159-60 198 Orwell, George 50 MacCarthy, Desmond 156 Osborne, John 92-3, 114-15 MacNeice, Louis 130 Owen, Wilfred 26 Marx, Groucho 160 Marx, Karl 198 Peter Pan (Barrie) 21, 58 Mary Rose (Barrie) 169 Pinero, Arthur Wing 23, 24, Maugham, W. Somerset 15, 35,38,41,187 23,38, 108,112,137,197 Pinter, Harold 4, 94-5, 177, du Maurier, Daphne 169-70 197, 198 du Maurier, Gerald 34, 40, Pirandello 19 93 Piscator 51 Meredith, George 140 Play (Beckett) 169

214 Index Playmaking (Archer) 23 Sleeping Prince, The Play Pictorial 56 (Rattigan) 104 Plays Pleasant (Shaw) 20 Sontag, Susan 120, 125 Pound, Ezra 28 Spender, Stephen 50 Preminger, Otto 3 Stamboul Train (Greene) 50, Price, Dennis 177 130 Priestley, J. B. 51, 169 St Joan (Shaw) 51 Printemps, Yvonne 57 Strange Interlude (O'Neill) Pudovkin 79 16(}.-2 Pygmalion (Shaw) 62 Strindberg 19 Stanislavsky 21 Quaker Girl, The 21 Stopes, Marie 28 Sunday Dispatch 49 Sunday Times 94--7, 98 Rainier, Prince 89 Rattigan, Terence 85, 104, Taste of Honey, A (Delaney) 112, 114 92-3 Rebecca (du Maurier) 169- Taylor, John Russell 44, 107, 70, 171-3 139 Redgrave, Vanessa 168 Tempest, Marie 188 Richard of Bordeaux 1066 And All That (Sellar and ('Gordon Daviot') 51 Yeatman) 70 Romberg, Sigmund 52 Thomas, Keith 174 Roose-Evans, James 105 Thorndike, Sybil 38 Rutherford, Margaret 173 Times, The 18, 167 Tracy, Spencer 142 Sartre, Jean Paul 86 Tree, Herbert Beerbohm 20 Scoundrel, The 1-2, 104, 111 Trewin, J. C. 91 Scribe 23-4 Tunnel Trench 48, 52 Second Mrs Tanqueray, The Tynan, Kenneth 58, 85, 114, (Pinero) 24, 41 118, 133 Sellar and Yeatman 70 Sexual Offences Act 108 Ustinov, Peter 85 Shaw 5-6, 20, 51 Sheridan 6 Vedrenne 20 Showboat 52-3, 57 Vile Bodies (Waugh) 27 Silver Tassie, The (O'Casey) 49 Waiting for Godot (Beckett) Sitwells 134 147-8, 169 Sketch, The 18, 57 Wallace, Edgar 51

215 Index Walpole, Hugh 4 Whiting, John 86, 104---5 War in the Air 21 Wilde 22, 123, 124, 127, 137, Waste Land, The (Eliot) 148 197 Waugh, Evelyn 27 Willis, Ted 85 Wedekind 19 Williams, Emlyn 48, 52 Wells, H. G. 50 Woolf, Virginia 46, 76 Wesker, Arnold 94---5 World in the Evening, The West, Rebecca 148-9 (Isherwood) 112 What the Butler Saw (Orton) 171 Yeats, W. B. 28 While the Sun Shines You Never Can Tell (Shaw) (Rattigan) 112 5,31

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