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GENIUS OF NOEL COWARD

OUTSTANDING MARK IS VERSATILITY

UNDISTURBED BY FAILURES

(By Geoffrey Harmsworth.)

garments, held up a pair of great commotion was going share was 37: 100%"

Profits: From Failures-

trousers. He said that they were on in the litle house at Staines delivered to the merchant in Ion- because young Noel had made a Coward has never allowed his don at 18. 8d.e pair. The only pronouncement unusual among fallures to worry him;; he has had markings were the somewhat boys of ten. At least when they the good sense to profit by them. supererogatory words "For. Gentle-do talk like that they are apt to be ("I bought it out of my failures, men on the buttons.""

boxed soundly on the ears. "Tm he told a friend, describing a

A letter from a Manchester going on the stage, he declared. villa he had taken in the south of firm, states that this Polish ready-(I know this is the way most stage France) "Sirocco was hissed made clothing gives endless people open their confessions, but at Daly's."Home Chat lasted trouble.

In Noel Coward's case the picture only five weeks. Evan Marie Tem

We have never known a single is authentic)GA ALTE best couldn't keep "The Marquise” satisfied customer of Polish. cloth- Now Noel Coward is one of those going for long.

|ing,” the : letter states. "It is people who make up their minds | The pendulum began to swing misshapen in cut very carelessly so do a thing and do it. No one the other way with This Year of made up, and very badly finished. knew that better than Mrs. Grace." He made nearly £1,000

"In future we will confine our Cowards herself. Noel, had read week out of it. As author, lyrist, effort to the sale of British cloth and advertisement somewhere for and composer of "Bitter Sweet |ing."

a boy actor for "The Goldfish," a his takings were estimated in the children's play to be puton at the neighbourhood of £70,000, Little Theatre,

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So his mother took him up to see Noel's greatest financial triumph. Airplane designers are always the manager, and that evening In all, including the fim rights, it experimenting with devices de-there was even greater excitement is said to have brought him $100,-. signed to make flying safer. The in the little house at Staipes be-000. "Design for Living which slotted wing, now to be used by cause Noel had secured his first has not been produced in England the French Air Ministry, is only contract. He was to play the part yet has earned nearly £30,000 in, one of many of these inventions. of a prince in "The Goldfish." America. "Conversation Place.".

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The search for high cruising Soon after "The Golddsh" ad-in which he is appearing with speeds has brought with it a cor-venture Noel was given a part by Yvonne Printemps, will undoubte responding search for slow land-Charles Hawtrey in "The Great edly add another E80,000 to Noel's it was this question which be Most promising of these is the provinces in one of Italia Conti's

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Name," and later he toured the little pile. came the paramount issue at trailing edge flap. It is released child companies. When he ap-Twenty years age he was thankful Ten years ago he was; poor. Toronto, especially the relation for landing and with the "slot" peared under Robert Courtneidge,to earn £2 108. a week on-tour. To- Woolley desire to thank all friends of Canada to Britain in regard

to.neutrality. for kind expressions of sympathy ally differed according to parties, machine is gilding. The result is Courtneidge had to rebuke him. more money out of the entertain- Opinions natur therefore greater lift while the "gage" on the stage, and once theatre, and 85 has already made bigger wing area and Noe! used to introduce impromptu day he is the richest man in the tendered in their recent bereave and many Canadian Conserva- ment and throughout Mr. Stone's tives were content to accept the

a lower and safer landing speed.

Another slow landing device is the public, not to amuse your-or dead, with the single exception "Young man, I pay you to amusement. business than anyone living pre-war position that Canada, as the wing tip rotor, invented by Dr. self." a part of the British Empire. Thuratos. It was recently tested

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Repertory Company: ly bandling of a trivial incident or

play writing. At the former he was moderately successful, but the us as to make it seem of im managers were not interested, fallently revealed in "Cavalcade.”

mense signficance. This was bril- his plays. He had written "The I have heard people ask why,

His First Contract

down to the country that week But Mr. MacDermott was going It's end, and, by a providential mis take, the play was slipped into his suitcase, Mr. MacDermott, hav ing nothing better to do, read the

another to play one of the parts in the glare of the footlights, des–"" the whole thing a success! perately intent on helping to make

(Continued on Page 3) "THE FIRST MRS. FRASER."

A man called on the editor of a Young Idea" straight on the type Noel Coward stili goes on acting from the Canadian point of view, paper and complained that in-a writer in four days, but it took when he has so many other things One thing that was learnt was previous issue they had published him two years to get it accepted. to keep him occupied. The rea issues tance

for Canada's relucan account of his death. The to make any European editor apologised profusely, and Noel's life was

One of the luckiest moments in son is that he considera: It is the commitment-

when he met necessary to be an actor as well as British like their neighbours over the in the next issue?—

The Canadians, the following paragraph appeared Michel Arlen. He had been hawk- a playwright in order to keep in Nations border, hold a "Monroe Doctrine

ink "The Vortex all round Lon- constant touch not only with the is afforded by the re-attitude,"

"We regret that the news cent Commonwealth Relations European entanglements. They death of Colonel Jones is without played in it. Finally Noel sent

They suspect

we don. One manager said he would audience but with the players all printed announcing the sudden consider the play, but not U Noel themselves. Conference in Toronto. This con-want freedom of foreign policy, foundation." ference was held under auspices The reasons for this Canadian

the BLS to Mr. Norman Mac As he once remarked, It is one

Gift Of Repartees. of the Royal Institute of Inter-attitude are various. In the first

Dermott, at the Everyman, Hamp- thing to sit comfortably in-the national Affairs, and its repre-place, Canada is jealous of her

stead. It was duly read, and, in stails on a first night (Afty shil!-- sentatives, although unofficial, national Independence. She does "What's that fellow's trouble? the manner of most M55. had an ings each) observing the effect on were influential, the British de- not wish to be submerged by Does he owe you any money?"

onunous docket entitled "unsuit-expectant public, but it is quite legation including such outstand-olther Britain or America. She

able" attached to its red cover. ing figures as Lord Cecil and Sir desires to preserve the separate

"No, but he wants to." Herbert Samuel The fact that nationhood she enjoys as a mem the conference partook of the na-ber of both the Empire and the

YOUNG RIP ture of private discussion, with-League. As in the Sino-Japanese five out any necessary resolutions or dispute, her policy may be diver-never too late to rend.n decisions in regard to policy, gent from that of Britain. Again; meant a frankness of statement her four million French-Cana and a freedom of exchange of dl-dians, though appreciating the On his tour of the schools an MS. By mid-day on Tuesday Noel

Her Interpretation vergent opinion impossible in an privileges they enjoy as a result inspector came before a class of Coward signed a contract for the official meeting. It also meant, of British generosity do not girls. He wrote on the black production of "The Vortex” perhaps, a more realistic outlook want to be automatically com board. "LXXX. Then peering Arion backed it to the extent of At the same time, it afforded mitted to war or peace by a vote over, his spectacles at a good-look £150; Noel had written it in a fresh emphasis on the new de at Westminster. Finally, Caning zal in the first row, asked: week, and he produced and acted velopment of Empire relations adian policy is inevitably in Young lady, I'd like to have in the play. It brought him succently produced "Ten Minute All- through conference rather than fluenced by that of her powerful tell me what that means " legislation, through mutual un- neighbour. For Canada #shel-7 "Love and kisses, the girl re Rayce, Previously, In London make a welcome return to the forth- derstanding rather than written tered under the lee of the Unit

cess and, of course a Rolls big with so much y compacts. The British minded States, the British Navy. Is has always been suspicions of not the urgent necessity. It is}

Calling" for which Nool wrote coming. Amateur Dramatic Club's the rigidity of doctrinaire state- for Australia. On the other

sketches and songs,, and in which newest production, The First ments. It prefers its institu- hand, her pacifist isolationism The girl who changes the colour what it felt like to get the birdented at the Boyal Naval Can- Md he acted and sang, he discovered Mrs. Fraser which will be pre- tions to grow gradually, to be and her stress on her obligations mite & ain. She won't go to heaven of her dir, BRYA eric com moulded by the pressure of to the League, as well as to the she dyes... changing facts, to be elastic en Empire, are joined with a lively

When he left the cast he impish teen Theatre, on April 11 to 14, ly sent the management scores of

Inclusive,papalara ough to stretch and meet new sense of the valite of her mem

telegrams in the names of illus

Other notable players, In the, circumstances. And so, in the barship of the British Common-

trio people deploring his

cast are James Walker, who will: words of the "Round Table," wealth of Nations. Canada and "It is unlucky to postpone

while, In the tremendous ship- Great Britain enjoy too great a wedding?" asks a reader. Not if

In the most extravagant Play James Fraser Faith Jupp, cast as Elsie, Frazor, and Joyce wreck of the Great War em- community of interests for the you keep on doing It

Miskin, Cyril Champkin and An pfres

Hibutions, and ideas fr-relations between them to be any-

Those were the days of the drew McKinley The new comers recoverably foundered, the Bri- thing but the friendliest of co-

ople, and tish Commonwealth of Nations operation, and Inter-dependence,

Include Betty Elder, and Dennis

Avoy, norean Institution a community of interests in mat- and now more tera econoinic and political in some-British traditions of democracy Tor and freedom, She is content to ited' this take advantage of the

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