Noël Coward

The play was a critical success—the Times, the News Chronicle, and the Telegraph all thought it Smith's best to date, and DS agreed with them. Noël Coward wrote to her and her producer,...

The Pelican also elicited positive reactions. Noël Coward , for example, wrote to the authors that he had seldom been so moved by a play. It is perfectly written, perfectly constructed and perfectly acted. This...

The Times Literary Supplement perceived the protagonist as a man who in youth sacrifices the spiritual side of his life to the material.Frank Swinnerton called the book a noble failure. At...

Like her first play, it again received admiring comparisons to Noel Coward .

See-Saw brought GBS a fan letter from Noël Coward , written from a hospital bed where he was the next-door neighbour of Geoffrey Holdsworth Lisle (whom GBS married five years later).

On the publication of London War NotesNoël Coward wrote to tell MPD that her evocation of the city in wartime, nearly thirty years in the past, was so well done that he felt sodden...

RG told her sister that this book had only a mention of an animal—one cat—hardly any flowers and not a single live child. Many of her readers, however, disliked its religious content: she faced...

Almost all responses to this novel quoted on the cover of its 1985 reprint use somewhere the word original. The Sioux was welcomed at its first appearance by Noel Coward and by Daphne du Maurier

Sitwell later wrote, the attitude of certain of the audience was so threatening that I was warned to stay on the platform, hidden by the curtain, until they got tired of waiting for me and...

In Berkshire she participated in local activities, like a Brains Trust in Wantage in aid of some good cause. She was an amateur painter. I once painted a picture of Noël Coward painting a...

A battle of the sexes similar to those of Noel Coward in its self-conscious theatricality, the drama centres on two stars competing for attention by insulting one another's performances.

While there she fell seriously ill. Her hair fell out, and grew back as merely fluff. By the time her brothers were born and her parents were moving apart, she was ill so much that...

There they spent time with journalists broadcasters, actors, and writers like Alexander Woollcott , Greta Garbo , Alfred Lunt , Lynn Fontanne , Noël Coward , Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson , Sam Behrman ,...

One of GBS 's close friends was Sheila Kaye-Smith , with whom she collaborated in works about Jane Austen . Another was Noël Coward , who met her after sending her a fan letter, introduced...

BC delighted in the company of the famous, beautiful, and charming. She frequented the Embassy Club , as did Michael Arlen , Cecil Beaton , Charlie Chaplin , and Gloria Vanderbilt , and she counted...