query: who wrote the song coward of the county

pos: Coward of the County Coward of the County "Coward of the County" is a country song written by Roger Bowling and Billy Ed Wheeler, and recorded by American country music singer Kenny Rogers. It was released in November 1979 as the second single from the multi-platinum album "Kenny". A million-selling gold-certified 45, it is one of Rogers' biggest hits. The song is about a man's nephew who is a reputed coward, but finally takes a stand for his lover. The song reached number one on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart. It also hit #1 on the Cash Box singles chart and #3 on

pos: Coward of the County Coward of the County "Coward of the County" is a country song written by Roger Bowling and Billy Ed Wheeler, and recorded by American country music singer Kenny Rogers. It was released in November 1979 as the second single from the multi-platinum album "Kenny". A million-selling gold-certified 45, it is one of Rogers' biggest hits. The song is about a man's nephew who is a reputed coward, but finally takes a stand for his lover. The song reached number one on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart. It also hit #1 on the Cash Box singles chart and #3 on

pos: Coward of the County of the Gatlin boys (brothers Jimmy Joe, Paul, and Luke). The film ends with Tommy joining the military and being shipped off to war, right after his and Becky's wedding ceremony (performed by Matthew), and with all three Gatlin brothers going to prison for gang-raping Becky. Coward of the County "Coward of the County" is a country song written by Roger Bowling and Billy Ed Wheeler, and recorded by American country music singer Kenny Rogers. It was released in November 1979 as the second single from the multi-platinum album "Kenny". A million-selling gold-certified 45, it is one of Rogers' biggest

pos: Coward of the County song"). Writer Billy Edd Wheeler denied that the lyric was a reference to the Gatlin Brothers. Larry Gatlin claimed in an interview on the Adam Carolla Show that Roger Bowling had a personal grudge against him although he didn't know why. He told Carolla that when Bowling won song of the year for "Lucille", he (Gatlin) walked over to congratulate Bowling for winning. Gatlin told Carolla: "He said 'fuck you Gatlin.' I said 'what?' He said 'fuck you.' I said 'Let me tell you something, hoss. If we weren't in the Grand Ole' Opry House dressed up in tuxedos, I

neg: Coward of the County would just open a boot shop in your ass.'" Gatlin said it was a year or two later that his family name showed up in "Coward of the County." Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song with several lyric changes for their 1981 album "Urban Chipmunk". Jamaican dancehall musician Sister Nancy performed a version on her 1982 album "One, Two" as "Coward of the Country ["sic"]." Her version also includes elements of the songs "Banana Boat Song" and "In the Ghetto." The song inspired a 1981 television movie of the same name, directed by Dick Lowry, who also directed all

neg: Coward of the County the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. In addition, it hit #1 on the UK Singles chart. It was the most recent traditional country music song to hit number one in the UK, in February 1980. In Ireland, the song was #1 for six consecutive weeks. The song tells the story of a young man named Tommy, who earns a notorious reputation as the "coward of the county" (and is nicknamed "Yellow", a slang term for a cowardly person) since he never stood up for himself one single time to prove the county wrong. Tommy's non-confrontational attitude was influenced, at age 10,

neg: Red Peppers 7:30" as it was billed in Manchester, to reflect the earlier starting time in the provinces in the 1930s). Coward directed all ten pieces, and each starred Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. Coward said that he wrote them as "acting, singing, and dancing vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence and myself". Four of the plays in the cycle "break into spontaneous song ... in the most unexpected places". For the onstage scenes in "Red Peppers", Coward wrote two pastiche music hall duets, "Has Anybody Seen our Ship?" and "Men About Town". Coward described the play as "a vaudeville sketch sandwiched in between two

neg: Shadow Play (play) starred Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. Coward said that he wrote them as "acting, singing, and dancing vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence and myself". Four of the plays in the cycle "break into spontaneous song... in the most unexpected places". Coward's song, "You Were There" is central to the play. "The Manchester Guardian" called the play "warmed with human feeling", though doubting the durability of the couple's reconciliation. The Broadway openings for the three parts took place on 24 November 1936, 27 November 1936 (including "Shadow Play") and 30 November 1936 at the National Theatre, again starring Coward and Lawrence. "Star Chamber"

neg: Forbidden Fruit (Noël Coward song) Coward's first autobiography, he describes his song as "a bright 'Point' number: 'Forbidden Fruit,' which I think is worthy of record as it was the first complete lyric I ever wrote." In musical theatre a "point" number is a song requiring a heightened accentuation on particular words that will "point" them out as important to the sense of the song. "Forbidden Fruit" came so easily to Coward that from that time on he increasingly focussed on song writing. The song "Forbidden Fruit" begins with the line "Ordinary man, Invariably sighs", describing a man in a peach orchard. The song became

neg: Noël Coward Some critics have detected Coward's influence in Pinter's plays. Tynan compared Pinter's "elliptical patter" to Coward's "stylised dialogue". Pinter returned the compliment by directing the National Theatre's revival of "Blithe Spirit" in 1976. Coward wrote more than three hundred songs. The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" (from "Words and Music") as Coward's most popular song, followed, in order, by: In the society's second tier of favourites are: Coward was no fan of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, but as a songwriter was nevertheless

neg: London Pride (song) in London, ending with "London Pride". In May 2015, Alexander Armstrong performed the song at at Horse Guards Parade in London. London Pride (song) "London Pride" is a patriotic song written and composed by Noël Coward during the Blitz in World War II. Coward wrote "London Pride" in the spring of 1941, during the Blitz. According to his own account, he was sitting on a seat on a platform in Paddington station, watching Londoners going about their business quite unfazed by the broken glass scattered around from the station's roof damaged by the previous night's bombing: in a moment of

neg: London Pride (song) London Pride (song) "London Pride" is a patriotic song written and composed by Noël Coward during the Blitz in World War II. Coward wrote "London Pride" in the spring of 1941, during the Blitz. According to his own account, he was sitting on a seat on a platform in Paddington station, watching Londoners going about their business quite unfazed by the broken glass scattered around from the station's roof damaged by the previous night's bombing: in a moment of patriotic pride, he suddenly recalled an old English folk song which had been apparently appropriated by the Germans for their national

neg: Cultural impact of Noël Coward Cultural impact of Noël Coward A prolific playwright and successful actor and director, Noël Coward has had a significant impact on culture in the English-speaking world. "Time" magazine said that he had a unique "sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise". Coward wrote over 50 published plays and many albums of original songs, in addition to musical theatre (including the operetta "Bitter Sweet"), comic revues, poetry, short stories, a novel and three volumes of autobiography. Books of his song lyrics, diaries and letters also have been published. Some of his plays, such as "Hay

neg: Writer and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, for example, wrote the libretto for some of Mozart's greatest operas. Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa were Italian librettists who wrote for Giacomo Puccini. Most opera composers collaborate with a librettist but unusually, Richard Wagner wrote both the music and the libretti for his works himself. Usually writing in verses and choruses, a lyricist specializes in writing lyrics, the words that accompany or underscore a song or opera. Lyricists also write the words for songs. In the case of Tom Lehrer, these were satirical. Lyricist Noël Coward, who wrote musicals and songs such as "Mad

neg: Mad Dogs and Englishmen (song) Mad Dogs and Englishmen (song) "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" is a song written by Noël Coward and first performed in "The Third Little Show" at the Music Box Theatre, New York, on 1 June 1931, by Beatrice Lillie. The following year it was used in the revue "Words and Music" and also released in a "studio version". It then became a signature feature in Coward's cabaret act. The song is especially known for the line "Only Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun" with which most verses begin and end. According to Sheridan Morley, Coward wrote the

neg: Mad About the Boy Mad About the Boy "Mad About the Boy" is a popular song with words and music by actor and playwright Sir Noël Coward. It was introduced in the 1932 revue "Words and Music" by Joyce Barbour, Steffi Duna, Norah Howard and Doris Hare. The song deals with the theme of unrequited love for a film star. It was written to be sung by female characters, although Coward also wrote a version, which was never performed, that contained references to the then risqué topic of homosexual love. The song gained new popularity in 1992 when Dinah Washington's rendition was used in

neg: Noël Coward at Las Vegas Noël Coward at Las Vegas Noël Coward at Las Vegas is a 1955 live album by Noël Coward. This was Coward's first appearance on the Las Vegas Strip, with Coward claiming that the dates gave him "one of the most sensational successes of my career, and to pretend that I am not absolutely delighted would be idiotic." "Life" magazine wrote that Coward was paid $40,000 per week for the engagements. Coward was accompanied by Peter Matz, who also provided the orchestrations, Matz arranged Coward's next live album, "Noël Coward in New York". The album reached No. 14 on the "Billboard"

neg: Noël Coward at Las Vegas albums chart. All music and lyrics written by Noël Coward unless otherwise indicated. Noël Coward at Las Vegas Noël Coward at Las Vegas is a 1955 live album by Noël Coward. This was Coward's first appearance on the Las Vegas Strip, with Coward claiming that the dates gave him "one of the most sensational successes of my career, and to pretend that I am not absolutely delighted would be idiotic." "Life" magazine wrote that Coward was paid $40,000 per week for the engagements. Coward was accompanied by Peter Matz, who also provided the orchestrations, Matz arranged Coward's next live album,

neg: Sail Away (musical) Sweeneys confide that the secret to their long marriage is that they have disliked each other so intensely, over such a long period of time, that others now find them endearing. ("The Bronxville Darby and Joan"). A song titled "The Bronxville Darby and Joan" was added for the London production. Sail Away (musical) Sail Away is a musical with a book, music and lyrics by Noël Coward. The show was the last musical for which Coward wrote both the book and music, although he wrote the music for one last "book" musical in 1963. The story centres on brash, bold

neg: Noël Coward comic novel, "Pomp and Circumstance" (1960), about life in a tropical British colony, met with more critical success. Coward's final stage success came with "Suite in Three Keys" (1966), a trilogy set in a hotel penthouse suite. He wrote it as his swan song as a stage actor: "I would like to act once more before I fold my bedraggled wings." The trilogy gained glowing reviews and did good box office business in the UK. In one of the three plays, "A Song at Twilight", Coward abandoned his customary reticence on the subject and played an explicitly homosexual character. The

neg: Esmé Wynne-Tyson by Charles Hawtrey at the Savoy Theatre, London, when she was 13. Coward was in the cast. At the age of 19, she wrote a light comedy, "Little Lovers", which was staged in London in 1922, drawing a dismissive review in "The Times." With Coward, she wrote a series of short plays, under the joint pen-name "Esnomel": "The Last Chapter" (staged 1917), "To Have and to Hold" (not staged), and "Women and Whisky" (staged 1918). Her last stage appearance was as Faith in Coward's comedy "I'll Leave It to You", in 1920, to which she contributed lyrics for a song.

neg: Forbidden Fruit (Noël Coward song) the film biography of Coward. Originally "Forbidden Fruit" was the song the 18-year-old Coward played in his audition for André Charlot, following an introduction by Beatrice Lillie, then a young revue actress from Toronto. Charlot listened silently while Coward played the song in his office, then after Coward left, he berated Lillie for wasting his time with a mediocre talent – a verdict he later revised. This audition was reenacted in Robert Wise's 1968 film "Star!" where Coward was played by his own godson Daniel Massey. Massey's performance of "Forbidden Fruit" was issued on the soundtrack, making the song commercially

neg: Philip Braham Coward. In 1925, he collaborated with Coward in "On with the Dance" and with John Hastings Turner on "Bubbly", starring Cyril Ritchard. He wrote for several revues produced by André Charlot. His best-known song is the jazz standard "Limehouse Blues", which he co-wrote with Douglas Furber. It was introduced by Teddie Gerard in the 1921 West End revue "A to Z", but it was soon closely associated with Gertrude Lawrence and was subsequently recorded by several artists and used in films. In the early 1930s, Braham turned to film music, working as musical director at Wembley Studios and writing music

neg: Forbidden Fruit (Noël Coward song) Forbidden Fruit (Noël Coward song) "Forbidden Fruit", also known as "It's The Peach", is an early Noël Coward song written in 1915, but not publicly performed until 1924 and not published until 1953. Although another early song, "Peter Pan" was the first to be recorded, in 1918, Coward considered "Forbidden Fruit" to be his first full-length song, already exhibiting Coward's trademark "worldly cynicism", risque lyrics, and "love of the internal rhyme." Musical theatre writer Stephen Citron concluded that the song's "musical rhythms, phrase lengths and especially its melodic sophistication are all harbingers of a more mature Coward." In "Present Indicative",

neg: Coward, South Carolina Coward, South Carolina Coward is a town in Florence County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 752 at the 2010 census, up from 650in 2000. It is part of the Florence Metropolitan Statistical Area. Coward has been noted for its unusual place name. Coward is in south-central Florence County at . U.S. Route 52 runs through the center of town, leading north to Florence, the county seat, and south to Lake City. South Carolina Highway 541 leads west from Coward to Olanta. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of Coward has a total area of ,

neg: Forbidden Fruit (Noël Coward song) available on record for the first time. Forbidden Fruit (Noël Coward song) "Forbidden Fruit", also known as "It's The Peach", is an early Noël Coward song written in 1915, but not publicly performed until 1924 and not published until 1953. Although another early song, "Peter Pan" was the first to be recorded, in 1918, Coward considered "Forbidden Fruit" to be his first full-length song, already exhibiting Coward's trademark "worldly cynicism", risque lyrics, and "love of the internal rhyme." Musical theatre writer Stephen Citron concluded that the song's "musical rhythms, phrase lengths and especially its melodic sophistication are all harbingers of

neg: Coward, South Carolina those under age 18 and 43.2% of those age 65 or over. Coward, South Carolina Coward is a town in Florence County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 752 at the 2010 census, up from 650in 2000. It is part of the Florence Metropolitan Statistical Area. Coward has been noted for its unusual place name. Coward is in south-central Florence County at . U.S. Route 52 runs through the center of town, leading north to Florence, the county seat, and south to Lake City. South Carolina Highway 541 leads west from Coward to Olanta. According to the United States

neg: Cornelius Coward Cornelius Coward Cornelius Coward (27 January 1838 – 15 July 1903) was an English cricketer. A talented fielder and right-handed batsman, popularly known as Kerr, Coward played 49 first-class matches for Lancashire County Cricket Club between 1865 and 1876. He scored 1,210 runs in the middle order for Lancashire, before retiring to play club cricket for his home town of Preston – who he also coached – as well as becoming a cricket umpire for 98 matches, a licensed victualler and a teacher at the Roman Catholic institutions of Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and Clongowes Wood College in Ireland. Coward

neg: William Coward of John Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel" (1681). It was eclipsed by a contemporary version published by Francis Atterbury, and Coward was ridiculed. In 1683 Coward became M.A., in 1685 M.B., and in 1687 M.D. He practised in Northampton; and in 1693 or 1694 settled in Lombard Street, London, having to leave Northampton in consequence of immorality, according to Thomas Hearne. Coward left London about 1705, and in 1718 was residing at Ipswich, whence in 1722 he wrote to Sir Hans Sloane, offering to submit an epitaph upon the Duke of Marlborough to the duchess, who was said to have offered

neg: Noël Coward strongly influenced by them. He recalled: "I was born into a generation that still took light music seriously. The lyrics and melodies of Gilbert and Sullivan were hummed and strummed into my consciousness at an early age. My father sang them, my mother played them... my aunts and uncles, who were legion, sang them singly and in unison at the slightest provocation." His colleague Terence Rattigan wrote that as a lyricist Coward was "the best of his kind since W. S. Gilbert." Notes References Works Portals Noël Coward Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English

neg: Cultural impact of Noël Coward in 1998. The Noël Coward Theatre in St Martin's Lane, originally called the New Theatre, was renamed in his honour in 2006. The playwright John Osborne said, "Mr Coward is his own invention and contribution to this century. Anyone who cannot see that should keep well away from the theatre." Kenneth Tynan wrote in 1964, "Even the youngest of us will know, in fifty years' time, exactly what we mean by 'a very Noel Coward sort of person'." "The Times" said of him, "None of the great figures of the English theatre has been more versatile than he," and the

neg: Oh, Coward! starring Cook, the cast also featured Catherine Cox and Patrick Quinn. The production received two Tony Award nominations, Best Actor and Actress in a Musical for Cook and Cox. Of the London production, Michael Billington of "The Guardian" wrote, "the star performer is undeniably Mr Cook himself... with a dangerous tooth-baring smile... he delivers each syllable of each song with a clinical, omniscient precision. Geraldine McEwan, willowy and acidulous in white satin, likewise realises that merciless articulation is the key to Coward performing, and Jamie Ross amiably makes up the trio in the manner of someone completing a country house

neg: Shadow Play (play) tranquilly in a moonlit garden. It was reprised by me later in the show while Gertie was scrambling breathlessly into a grey bouffant dress in the quick-change room at the side of the stage. It is a pleasant, sentimental little song and we both enjoyed doing it." Shadow Play (play) Shadow Play is a short play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up "", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, "A short play, having a great advantage over a long one in that

neg: Thomas Coward Haunts and Nature Memories". He attributed it to "a west-coast Irishman". Coward wrote a number of books on local history, natural history and birds: Thomas Coward Thomas Alfred Coward, MSc, FZS, FRES, MBOU (8 January 1867 – 29 January 1933), was an English ornithologist and an amateur astronomer. He wrote extensively on natural history, local history and Cheshire. He was born at 8 Higher Downs, Bowdon, Cheshire (now Greater Manchester) on 8 January 1867, the fourth and last child of Thomas and Sarah Coward. His father was a Congregational minister and in business as a partner in the firm of

neg: Noël Coward contravening currency regulations in 1941. Had the Germans invaded Britain, Coward was scheduled to be arrested and killed, as he was in The Black Book along with other figures such as Virginia Woolf, Paul Robeson, Bertrand Russell, C. P. Snow and H. G. Wells. When this came to light after the war, Coward wrote: "If anyone had told me at that time I was high up on the Nazi blacklist, I should have laughed ... I remember Rebecca West, who was one of the many who shared the honour with me, sent me a telegram which read: 'My dear –

neg: Mad Dogs and Englishmen (song) noon by a member of Jardines. In 1968, Coward visited Hong Kong and fired the gun. Coward wrote, "In "Words and Music" Romney Brent sang it as a missionary in one of Britain's tropical colonies. Since then I have sung it myself ad nauseam. On one occasion it achieved international significance. This was a dinner party given by Mr Winston Churchill on board HMS "Prince of Wales" in honour of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the evening following the signing of the Atlantic Charter. From an eye-witness description of the scene it appears that the two world leaders became involved

neg: After the Ball (musical) decided, in August 1953, to base a musical on Oscar Wilde's play, "Lady Windermere's Fan"; he worked on it until January 1954. He delegated the first draft of the script to his assistant Cole Lesley. Lesley "cut out the more glaringly melodramatic of Wilde's lines and divided the remainder into sections ending with a suitable 'cue for a song'" "I know that it is very good indeed," wrote Coward of the finished piece, "I have... turned out some of the best lyrics I have ever written" Coward worked on the piece during his customary winter holiday in Jamaica in December

neg: Tonight at 8:30 extravaganza "Cavalcade" (1931), requiring a large cast, gargantuan sets and a complex hydraulic stage, to the intimate comedies "Private Lives" (1930), in which Coward starred alongside Gertrude Lawrence, and "Design for Living" (1932). Coward said that after "Private Lives", he felt that the public enjoyed seeing him and Lawrence together on stage, and so he wrote the play cycle "Tonight at 8:30" as "acting, singing, and dancing vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence and myself". The cycle consists of 10 one-act plays: Four of the plays in the cycle "break into spontaneous song... in the most unexpected places". The songs from "Tonight

neg: Words and Music (musical) song "Let’s Live Dangerously", "a merry little skit on present day habits" (In the order printed in "The Lyrics of Noël Coward", pp. 114–18): The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" as Coward's most popular song. "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" is also among the top ten most performed Coward songs. "The Party's Over Now" ranks in the top thirty of Coward songs. Words and Music (musical) Words and Music is a musical revue with sketches, music, lyrics and direction by Noël Coward. The revue introduced

neg: State of the Heart (song) of emptied out and took the emphasis to the bottom end with the bass playing. I thought it was a really interesting thing and then Rick Springfield recorded that song and got completely rid of that and wrote a vocal bridge for it … it was like … coward. Made me some money though so that was good!". AUS 7" Single State of the Heart (song) "State of the Heart" is a song recorded by Australian rock group Mondo Rock and released in October 1980 as the lead single from the band's second studio album, "Chemistry" (1981). The song peaked

neg: Una O'Connor (actress) ... The end of my savings is in sight and unless something happens soon, I'll not be able to pay the rent". Her luck changed when she was chosen by Noël Coward to appear in "Cavalcade" at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1933. Expressing surprise that Coward noticed her, Coward responded that he had watched her for years and wrote the part with her in mind. She portrayed an Edwardian servant who transforms herself into a self-made woman. When the curtain came down after a performance attended by Hollywood executives, they exclaimed to each other "We must have that

neg: Noël Coward Conti engaged Coward to appear at the Liverpool Repertory Theatre in 1913, and in the same year he was cast as the Lost Boy Slightly in "Peter Pan". He reappeared in "Peter Pan" the following year, and in 1915 he was again in "Where the Rainbow Ends". He worked with other child actors in this period, including Hermione Gingold (whose mother threatened to turn "that naughty boy" out); Fabia Drake; Esmé Wynne, with whom he collaborated on his earliest plays; Alfred Willmore, later known as Micheál Mac Liammóir; and Gertrude Lawrence who, Coward wrote in his memoirs, "gave me an

neg: Noël Coward seen as the smooth 1930s sophisticate, but as the doyen of the theatre. As "The New Statesman" wrote in 1964, "Who would have thought the landmarks of the Sixties would include the emergence of Noël Coward as the grand old man of British drama? There he was one morning, flipping verbal tiddlywinks with reporters about "Dad's Renaissance"; the next he was... beside Forster, T. S. Eliot and the OMs, demonstrably the greatest living English playwright." "Time" wrote that "in the 60s... his best work, with its inspired inconsequentiality, seemed to exert not only a period charm but charm, period." By

neg: Graham Payn performance." Coward's biographer, Philip Hoare, wrote, "Graham disproved his partner's assessment of himself as 'an illiterate little sod' by publishing his memoir and by managing the Coward estate. He was a generous, uncomplicated man, and he will be missed by his many friends." In 1988, 15 years after Coward's death, Payn, who "hadn't the heart to use it again", gave their Jamaican home, the Firefly Estate, to the Jamaica National Heritage Trust. He retained their other home in Switzerland, where he died in 2005, aged 87. Payn wrote "Noël Coward and His Friends" (1979) with Sheridan Morley and Cole Lesley,

neg: Fumed Oak Fumed Oak Fumed Oak is a short play in two scenes by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up "", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. Coward billed the work as an "unpleasant comedy in two scenes". The play concerns a downtrodden, middle-aged salesman who, having saved up enough money to cut all ties, walks out on his wife, mother-in-law and "horrible adenoidal daughter", having first told all three what he thinks of them. In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, "A short play, having a great advantage over a long

neg: Romney Marsh in Rye; Daphne du Maurier, who lived in Hythe for a few years during World War II; H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Stephen Crane, Radclyffe Hall, Noël Coward, Edith Nesbit, Rumer Godden, Malcolm Saville, and Conrad Aiken. Rudyard Kipling and his "Smugglers' Song" are famous. According to Norman Wright's book "The Famous Five: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know", it was Rye that inspired Enid Blyton when she wrote "Five Go to Smuggler's Top". The 1947 British historical drama film "The Loves of Joanna Godden" based on the novel by Sheila Kaye-Smith and directed by Charles Frend is

neg: Charles Dickinson (historical figure) stupid meddler. Dickinson sent Jackson a letter calling him a coward about the same time that Swann wrote a column in a local newspaper calling Jackson a coward. Jackson responded in the same newspaper saying Swann was a "lying valet for a worthless, drunken, blackguard" meaning Dickinson. That did it for Dickinson who, after he returned from New Orleans in May 1806, published an attack on Jackson in the local newspaper calling Jackson "a poltroon and a coward." After reading the article, Jackson sent Dickinson a letter requesting "satisfaction due me for the insults offered." Because dueling was outlawed in

neg: No Coward Plays Hockey No Coward Plays Hockey "No Coward Plays Hockey" () could be called the anthem of ice hockey in the Soviet Union and Russia. The song was composed in 1968 by Aleksandra Pakhmutova (music), Sergei Grebennikov and Nikolai Dobronravov (lyrics - both). During this period of Soviet history, ice hockey was very popular in the Soviet Union, which is why it was not a big surprise when such a song appeared. Since then, it has been performed by many musicians - and most hockey arenas in Russia use its theme to open the game. The original version of this song was

neg: Cowardy Custard Coward", but Coward cabled the producers three months before the opening from his home in Jamaica suggesting "Cowardy Custard". He vetoed an alternative suggestion, "This Is Noël Coward", which he said was too close to "This "Was" Noël Coward". Telling the story of Coward's life through song and biographical snippets, the revue was billed as "An entertainment featuring the words and music of Noël Coward". The Coward numbers featured are songs and scenes from Coward's works of the 1920s to the 1960s, including "You were there", "Mad About the Boy"; "The Stately Homes of England", "I Wonder What Happened to

neg: Mad About the Boy the Levi's television advertisement "Swimmer", directed by Tarsem Singh. The song expresses the adulation of a matinee idol by a number of women as they queue outside a cinema and is sung by several female characters in turn. The adoring fans sing of their love for their hero: Coward later wrote additional verses for the New York production, to be sung by a male character. The lyrics make explicit reference to homosexual feelings with lines such as: The lyrics also make camp humorous reference to the supposed effeminacy of the character, who is likened to the contemporary film actress Myrna

neg: Falling Blossoms Falling Blossoms Falling Blossoms () is the second single by the South Korean artists Kim Hee-chul and Min Kyung-hoon, the duo who is known as Universe Cowards . Their stage name is a mix of Heechul's nickname "Universe Star" and Buzz's song "Coward". The single is released a year after the success of their first collaboration and is part of Knowing Bros music video competition, released alongside Kim Young-chul's "Andenayon" and Kang Ho-dong's "I Kick My Luck Away". Min Kyung-hoon wrote the lyrics to "Falling Blossoms" with his Buzz band mates Yoo Woo-hyun and Shin Joon-ki. "Billboard" described it as

neg: The Hole in the Ground and Cribbins switches between a working class Cockney accent, in which he drops his aitches, and a middle class accent for the gentleman in the bowler hat. <poem> </poem> Noël Coward, who wrote many comic songs himself, chose the record as one of his "Desert Island Discs". He said: "I think the only one I would never get sick of is 'Hole in the Ground', because I could translate it into French as I walked up and down on the beach." The Hole in the Ground "The Hole in the Ground" was a comic song which was written by Myles

neg: Graham Payn and, with Morley, was co-editor of "The Noël Coward Diaries", which they dedicated to Lesley. Payn wrote his autobiography, "My Life With Noël Coward", in 1994. Graham Payn Graham Payn (25 April 1918 – 4 November 2005) was a South African-born English actor and singer, also known for being the life partner of the playwright Noël Coward. Beginning as a boy soprano, Payn later made a career as a singer and actor in the works of Coward and others. After Coward's death, Payn ran the Coward estate for 22 years. Payn was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, the son of

neg: Thomas Coward Thomas Coward Thomas Alfred Coward, MSc, FZS, FRES, MBOU (8 January 1867 – 29 January 1933), was an English ornithologist and an amateur astronomer. He wrote extensively on natural history, local history and Cheshire. He was born at 8 Higher Downs, Bowdon, Cheshire (now Greater Manchester) on 8 January 1867, the fourth and last child of Thomas and Sarah Coward. His father was a Congregational minister and in business as a partner in the firm of Melland and Coward, textile bleachers. Coward's siblings were Charles, Alice and Annie. After an education at Brooklands School, Sale and at Owens College (now

neg: Noël Coward the children's play "The Goldfish". In "Present Indicative", his first volume of memoirs, Coward wrote: The leading actor-manager Charles Hawtrey, whom the young Coward idolised and from whom he learned a great deal about the theatre, cast him in the children's play "Where the Rainbow Ends". Coward played in the piece in 1911 and 1912 at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End. In 1912 Coward also appeared at the Savoy Theatre in "An Autumn Idyll" (as a dancer in the ballet) and at the London Coliseum in "A Little Fowl Play", by Harold Owen, in which Hawtrey starred. Italia

neg: Hambleton, Rutland his mother and infant child who are buried in the attached graveyard. It is believed that the windows were funded by Walter Marshall after being petitioned by Rev Young. Adjacent to the south side of the church yard stands a sixteenth-century priest house. The Hall was built in 1881 as a hunting box by Walter Marshall who left it to his sister, Eva Astley Paston Cooper. She was a socialite who gathered a salon including Noël Coward, Malcolm Sargent and Charles Scott-Moncrieff. Coward wrote "Hay Fever" while staying in the village. There is a view across to Burley House from

neg: Blithe Spirit (play) his own view of things on the brute facts of existence," and Michael Billington of "The Guardian" wrote of Coward's influence on Harold Pinter. In 2004, Charles Spencer of "The Daily Telegraph" wrote, "With "Hay Fever" and "Private Lives", "Blithe Spirit" strikes me as being one of Coward 's three indisputable comic masterpieces. [It is] the outrageous frivolity with which Coward treats mortality that makes the piece so bracing." "Blithe Spirit" was made into a successful film in 1945, adapted by Coward and directed by David Lean. The cast included Rex Harrison as Charles, Constance Cummings as Ruth, Kay Hammond

neg: This Was a Man business and slowness of tempo'. The production failed to receive the critical praise of his previous works. By 8 December Coward wrote ' This was a man is drifting along… some of the critics ( the principle ones) have said very good things about it but I fear too late to save it.' Following a period of intense success the comparative failure of "This Was a Man" had taken its toll on Coward health. By 14 December Coward wrote 'that I have been living on nervous energy for years and now it has given out and that I must go

neg: Thomas Coward Manchester University), Coward worked in the family business for 19 years, before it was taken over by the Bleachers' Association. His share of the proceeds from the sale of Melland and Coward was sufficient to allow him to retire from business and concentrate on his love of wildlife and the study of birds, which had developed as a child. He began writing articles on natural history for newspapers including "The Liverpool Daily Post", "The Chester Cournant" and "The Manchester Guardian" for which he wrote the "Country Diary" column until his death. General interest magazines for which he wrote included "The

neg: Noël Coward after this he made a rule of starring in a play for no more than three months at any venue. "Design for Living", written for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, was so risqué, with its theme of bisexuality and a "ménage à trois", that Coward premiered it in New York, knowing that it would not survive the censor in London. In 1933 Coward wrote, directed and co-starred with the French singer Yvonne Printemps in both London and New York productions of an operetta, "Conversation Piece" (1933). He next wrote, directed and co-starred with Lawrence in "" (1936), a cycle of

neg: Ana Alicia Gloria Alonzo in the episode "Space Croppers" of the series sequel "Galactica 1980". Between these she appeared as Falina Redding in the "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" episode "Vegas in Space." Then, she played a major role in the 1981 TV movie "Coward Of The County", which also starred Kenny Rogers and was based on his hit song of the same name. Next she auditioned for the role of spoiled, selfish vineyard heiress Melissa Agretti on "Falcon Crest" as a replacement for actress Delores Cantú who had played Melissa for one episode in early 1982. Melissa went on to

neg: Words and Music (musical) in a small part, Graham Payn. It ran for 164 performances, short of the two years Coward had expected, closing on 4 February 1933. "The Manchester Guardian" wrote of the show, "The Times" wrote, "Mr. Coward has the gift of attack... he had the audience cheering before the opening chorus was spent... Mr. Coward has, above all else, the gift of satire, and this revue, being primarily satirical, is his best work in the musical kind... the active fierceness which is the distinction between genuine satire and empty sneering." The paper thought "Something to do with Spring" the only failure

neg: No Coward Plays Hockey performed in 1968 by Vadim Mulerman. No Coward Plays Hockey "No Coward Plays Hockey" () could be called the anthem of ice hockey in the Soviet Union and Russia. The song was composed in 1968 by Aleksandra Pakhmutova (music), Sergei Grebennikov and Nikolai Dobronravov (lyrics - both). During this period of Soviet history, ice hockey was very popular in the Soviet Union, which is why it was not a big surprise when such a song appeared. Since then, it has been performed by many musicians - and most hockey arenas in Russia use its theme to open the game. The

neg: Family Album (play) 27 November 1936 and 30 November 1936 (including "Family Album"), again starring Coward and Lawrence. Coward directed all ten pieces in "Tonight at 8.30", and each starred Coward and Gertrude Lawrence in the original British and New York productions. The London and New York runs were limited only by Coward's boredom at long engagements. Four of the plays in the cycle "break into spontaneous song ... in the most unexpected places". "Family Album" contains four songs: "Drinking Song", "Princes and Princesses", "Music Box" and "Hearts and Flowers". The play was withdrawn from the "Tonight at 8.30" programmes following the death

neg: Cole Porter right leg. After 34 operations, it had to be amputated and replaced with an artificial limb. His friend Noël Coward visited him in the hospital and wrote in his diary, "The lines of ceaseless pain have been wiped from his face... I am convinced that his whole life will cheer up and that his work will profit accordingly." In fact, Porter never wrote another song after the amputation and spent the remaining six years of his life in relative seclusion, seeing only intimate friends. He continued to live in the Waldorf Towers in New York in his memorabilia-filled apartment. On

neg: Bob Ferguson (musician) he recorded his own song, "Eli's Blue", a lament about a man who accidentally shot his dog. Ferguson wrote several other songs, including the million seller, "Carroll County Accident", first recorded by Porter Wagoner. In 1969 it received a Country Music Award for the "Song of the Year". In the 1960s Ferguson also wrote "Natividad", a Christmas song, and "Choctaw Saturday Night", a tribute to Choctaw Native Americans. The country song "Carroll County Accident" was written when Ferguson passed through Carroll County when driving from Nashville to a concert for the Choctaw Indians in Philadelphia, Miss., according to an interview

neg: Desmond Carter penned the words to seventeen of the score's twenty-two songs and collaborated with Ira Gershwin on four of the remaining five. Two among them, "Isn't It Horrible What They Did to Mary, Queen of Scots" and "That New Fangled Mother of Mine," shine with humor and wordplay worthy of Noel Coward." In 1936, Carter wrote English lyrics for the song "Gloomy Sunday" (""Szomorú vasárnap""), which had been written by Hungarian composer Rezső Seress with lyrics by László Jávor. Carter's lyrics were performed and recorded by Paul Robeson, whose recording was successful although most later versions of the song used alternative

neg: Coward of the County and has repeatedly told him so. That rejection (to which he is in total denial), along with the fact that Becky and Tommy started dating and became engaged while he and his brother Luke were away at basic training, would serve as motive for Jimmy Joe and his brothers to assault Becky three days before she and Tommy would be getting married.). The movie added several characters not mentioned in the song, including Car-Wash (Noble Willingham), a friend of the Spencer family; Violet (Ana Alicia), a local girl who also loved Tommy; and Lem Gatlin (Joe Dorsey), the equally-nemesis father

neg: Henry Coward entertain Queen Victoria. Dan Godfrey wrote that "it is doubtful whether England has ever produced a better or more gifted choir trainer than Coward... He has evolved, formulated and put into practice a method of choral technique which has had the result of bringing about a revival of singing in chorus which has spread through the whole Empire." After World War I, Henry Coward faced criticism for being unable to conduct an orchestra, but was knighted in 1926 and from 1929 to 1944 served as President of the Tonic Sol-fa College in London. Coward disliked jazz, which he described as

neg: Present Laughter Coward reprising the Essendine role. Coward wrote: ""Present Laughter" is a very light comedy and was written with the sensible object of providing me with a bravura part". He completed the playscript (as well as the one for "This Happy Breed") in 1939, before the outbreak of World War II, but did not produce the plays until 1942. Given the hero's repeated laments over his own ageing and mortality, the title can be seen as ironic. Coward acknowledged that the central character, the egocentric actor Garry Essendine, was a self-caricature. Coward repeats one of his signature theatrical devices at the

neg: Graham Payn Astonished Heart" (1950) and "The Italian Job" (1968), in which Coward played a criminal mastermind with Payn as his obsequious assistant. After Coward died in 1973, Payn's career for the rest of his life became the administration of the Coward estate. The Coward authority Barry Day wrote, "It was not a job he ever wanted or expected but he brought to it a dedication and focus that Noël would have been surprised and pleased to see. [He] was thrust into his biggest role and played it as he knew Noël would have wanted him to. It was a fitting farewell

neg: Private Lives London, he found Lawrence not only had cleared her schedule but was staying at Edward Molyneux's villa in Cap-d'Ail in southeastern France learning her lines. Coward joined her, and the two began rehearsing the scenes they shared. At the end of July they returned to London where Coward began to direct the production. Coward played the part of Elyot Chase himself, Adrianne Allen was his bride Sibyl, Lawrence played Amanda Prynne, and Laurence Olivier was her new husband Victor. Coward wrote Sibyl and Victor as minor characters, "extra puppets, lightly wooden ninepins, only to be repeatedly knocked down and stood

neg: Noël Coward Coward all over again." As soon as he achieved success he began polishing the Coward image: an early press photograph showed him sitting up in bed holding a cigarette holder: "I looked like an advanced Chinese decadent in the last phases of dope." Soon after that, Coward wrote, "I took to wearing coloured turtle-necked jerseys, actually more for comfort than for effect, and soon I was informed by my evening paper that I had started a fashion. I believe that to a certain extent this was true; at any rate, during the ensuing months I noticed more and more of

neg: Nick Cave of the Beatles' "Let It Be" for the film "I Am Sam", and co-wrote and recorded the song "To Be By Your Side," for the soundtrack of the 2001 French documentary "Le Peuple Migrateur" (called "Winged Migration" in the US). Cave creates original film scores with fellow Bad Seeds band member Warren Ellis—they first teamed up in 2005 to work on "The Proposition", for which Cave also wrote the screenplay. In 2006, Cave and Ellis composed the music for Andrew Dominik's adaptation of Ron Hansen's "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". By the time Dominik's film

neg: Forbidden Fruit (Noël Coward song) known as the "Peach" song due to this and the refrain: <poem> Every peach out of reach is attractive 'Cause it's just a little bit too high. And you'll find that every man. Will try to pluck it, if he can. As he passes by. </poem> Regarding the lyric "And I'll bet you half a crown, He'll appreciate the flavor of it much much more" Coward, later reviewing the song in his autobiography, noted that "a bet of fifty pounds or at least a fiver would be more in keeping with the urbanity of the song. The song features in

neg: Ros Coward Ros Coward Rosalind Coward is a journalist and writer. She is an Emeritus Professor of journalism at Roehampton University, and a former member of the board of Greenpeace UK (2005–12). Coward gained her first degree in English Literature from Cambridge University and her PhD from the Thames Polytechnic (now the University of Greenwich) in 1981. She has been a columnist for "The Guardian" since 1992 and was previously a regular contributor to "The Observer" and "Marxism Today". She wrote a regular column for "The Guardian"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Comment pages between 1995 and 2004. From 2005 to 2008 she was the author of

neg: Ros Coward column for "The Ecologist" magazine. Ros Coward Rosalind Coward is a journalist and writer. She is an Emeritus Professor of journalism at Roehampton University, and a former member of the board of Greenpeace UK (2005–12). Coward gained her first degree in English Literature from Cambridge University and her PhD from the Thames Polytechnic (now the University of Greenwich) in 1981. She has been a columnist for "The Guardian" since 1992 and was previously a regular contributor to "The Observer" and "Marxism Today". She wrote a regular column for "The Guardian"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Comment pages between 1995 and 2004. From 2005 to 2008

neg: Noël Coward very, very long part, but I was very, very bad at it". Nevertheless, "The Manchester Guardian" thought that Coward got the best out of the role, and "The Times" called the play "the jolliest thing in London". Coward completed a one-act satire, "The Better Half", about a man's relationship with two women. It had a short run at The Little Theatre, London, in 1922. The critic St John Ervine wrote of the piece, "When Mr Coward has learned that tea-table chitter-chatter had better remain the prerogative of women he will write more interesting plays than he now seems likely to

neg: The Astonished Heart (film) The Astonished Heart (film) The Astonished Heart is a 1950 British drama film directed by Terence Fisher. It stars Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, and Margaret Leighton, and is based on Coward's play "The Astonished Heart" from his cycle of ten plays, "". Inspired by the great success of the 1945 film "Brief Encounter", which also had been adapted from "Tonight at 8:30", Coward agreed to have "The Astonished Heart" produced as a motion picture. As with the previous film, Coward also wrote the screenplay. Production began in 1949 and featured not only Noël Coward in one of his rare film

neg: The Coward (1915 film) The Coward (1915 film) The Coward is a 1915 American silent historical war drama film directed by Reginald Barker and produced by Thomas H. Ince. Ince also wrote the film's scenario with C. Gardner Sullivan, from a story Ince had bought from writer (and future director) Edward Sloman. The film stars Frank Keenan and Charles Ray. John Gilbert also appears in an uncredited bit part. A copy of "The Coward" is preserved at the Museum of Modern Art. Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel, with Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is

neg: The Astonished Heart as "Today at 2:30". On its opening night in Manchester, "The Astonished Heart" was presented together with "We Were Dancing" and "Red Peppers". The first London performance was on 9 January 1936 at the Phoenix Theatre. Coward directed all ten pieces, and each starred Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. Coward said that he wrote them as "acting, singing, and dancing vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence and myself". Coward loved playing in some of the other plays in "Tonight at 8:30", particularly "Fumed Oak" and "Red Peppers", but "I hated playing "The Astonished Heart". It depressed me." "The Astonished Heart" was not one

neg: A Song at Twilight Carlotta gives them to Hugo. In return, Hugo changes his mind about his letters to her, and gives his consent to their publication in her book. Hilde shows Carlotta out, and returns to find Hugo reading his old letters, "deeply moved... with a sigh [he] covers his eyes with a hand". In his diary Coward wrote, "Well, the most incredible thing has happened. Not only has "A Song at Twilight" opened triumphantly, but the Press notices have on the whole been extremely good. Most particularly the "Express" and the "Evening Standard." Fortunately the "Sun" struck a sour note... which convinced

neg: Ways and Means (play) Ways and Means (play) Ways and Means is a short comic play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up "", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. The story concerns an heiress and her gambling husband, who are plagued by debt and embarrassment as everything seems to always go wrong for them. Their honour is saved just in time when a disgraced chauffeur tries to rob them but amiably ends up pulling them out of a hole. In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, "A short play, having a great advantage

neg: Private Lives Private Lives Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for each other. Its second act love scene was nearly censored in Britain as too risqué. Coward wrote one of his most popular songs, "Some Day I'll Find You", for the play. After touring the British provinces, the play opened the new Phoenix Theatre in London in 1930,

neg: Harry Kurnitz the screenplay. Kurnitz wrote more than forty movie scripts, among them "Witness for the Prosecution", "What Next, Corporal Hargrove?", and "How to Steal a Million". His first play was "Reclining Figure", a 1954 comedy about painters and their patrons and the tricks of the dealers and collectors who prey on them. Later, Kurnitz wrote the hit comedy "Once More, with Feeling!". Other plays included "High Fidelity" and "The Girl Who Came to Supper", a musical he wrote with Noël Coward, who composed the music and lyrics. On March 18, 1968, Kurnitz died of a heart attack. At the time of

neg: Coward of the County plea, addressing him respectfully that while he did his best to avoid trouble, he hopes he understands that "sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man." It has been claimed that mention of the "Gatlin boys ... there was three of them" in the song was a reference to The Gatlin Brothers. However, in "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Singles", Rogers stated that he did not realize the connection, and that had he done so, he would have asked for the name to have been changed. Larry Gatlin also gave the song a positive review ("It's a good

neg: Post Mortem (Coward play) "the play is outstanding as a polemical, vitriolic attack on British disregard for World War I victims". When the play was staged in London in 1992, the critical response was mixed. "The Times" and "The Independent" were hostile. Benedict Nightingale of "The Times" wrote, "It is the sort of anti-war play you might expect from someone who never swapped a shot in anger and at some level feels guilty for having survived the slaughter: shrill, awkward... It is just the sort of didactic plod that Coward hated when others were writing; and with good reason. "The Independent" praised the production,

neg: The Girl Who Came to Supper abridged version of "The Coconut Girl", and O'Shea for her extended song-and-dance routine of Cockney tunes. Otherwise, the review by the influential critic Walter Kerr in the "Herald Tribune" was mostly negative. He and others felt the show was an unsuccessful attempt to duplicate the success of the earlier "My Fair Lady". O'Shea won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Nominations also went to Coward and Kurnitz for Best Author of a Musical and Irene Sharaff for Best Costume Design. The show proved to be the last with a Coward score and the only one of

neg: Jane Carr (actress, born 1909) had a daughter, Charlotte Donaldson-Hudson, who relates the details of Noël Coward visiting her mother's flat in London at about the time of the Festival of Britain preparations in 1950. She said: Jane Carr's daughter, Charlotte Donaldson-Hudson (born 17 December 1944), the great granddaughter of Charles Donaldson-Hudson talked about Noël Coward writing the song and playing it on the pianos at her mother's flat in a BBC radio broadcast from 4 May 2011, about the festival of Britain. The programme is available at BBC iPlayer: Random Edition. In Spring 1955 Jane Carr married Henry J. Robert Stent, the managing director

neg: I Went to a Marvellous Party The two were invited to "come as they were," but on arriving they discovered the other guests were formally dressed. Perhaps this explains why the singer claims it was hell to stay dressed as they were. "Poor Grace" in the first stanza is a reference to Grace Moore, the opera singer and movie actress, who was also a guest. The song was first sung by Bea Lillie in the revue "Set to Music" in 1939. Although the text is published in various collections of Noël Coward songs, Coward's own recording from 1956, heard on the "Noël Coward Album", contains variations

neg: Kenny Rogers and The First Edition sing (e.g., his solo Coward Of The County) that had elements of sadism under a gentle surface. The line about mimicking a crippled man would not have flown had it not been sung with so much reverence. Released a month or so after the Kent State shootings, the song drew a standing ovation the night it debuted live. They also played an encore, where the audience yelled play "I'm Gonna Sing You A Sad Song Susie" again! In addition to the band's continuing frequent appearances on television, songs by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition were featured in two 1970

neg: Cornelius Coward to live at 204 South Meadow Road, Preston with one servant. In his last years he continued to play club cricket for Preston, and spent some time at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire and at Clongowes Wood College, in Ireland. He died in July 1903, in the town of his birth, Preston. His younger brother, Frederick, also played first-class cricket. Cornelius Coward Cornelius Coward (27 January 1838 – 15 July 1903) was an English cricketer. A talented fielder and right-handed batsman, popularly known as Kerr, Coward played 49 first-class matches for Lancashire County Cricket Club between 1865 and 1876. He scored 1,210

neg: Private Lives on stage was "proved by the delight of a theatrical audience." T. E. Lawrence, however, wrote, "The play reads astonishingly well ... superb prose." The editor of "The Gramophone" greeted Coward and Lawrence's 1930 recording of scenes from the play as a success and added, "I wish that Noel Coward would find time to write a short play for the gramophone, for neither of these extracts has enough completeness to bear indefinite repetition." "Private Lives" has been the subject of literary analysis under a range of literary theories. Coward expressed a dim view of such analyses: "Many years ago an

neg: Star Chamber (play) Lawrence. Coward said that he wrote them as "acting, singing, and dancing vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence and myself". The story in "Star Chamber" draws on Coward's own experiences as President of the Actors' Orphanage, a post he held from 1934 to 1956. Coward makes fun of egocentric actors and the pedantry of committees. In the play, the president's lapdog is "the most sympathetic character" in the piece. The play's only London performance in the original run was on 21 March 1936 at the Phoenix Theatre. After this maiden performance, Coward withdrew it from the cycle. The Broadway production in 1936

neg: Noël Coward during the war. In the aftermath of the war, Coward wrote an alternative reality play, "Peace In Our Time", depicting an England occupied by Nazi Germany. Coward's new plays after the war were moderately successful but failed to match the popularity of his pre-war hits. "Relative Values" (1951) addresses the culture clash between an aristocratic English family and a Hollywood actress with matrimonial ambitions; "South Sea Bubble" (1951) is a political comedy set in a British colony; "Quadrille" (1952) is a drama about Victorian love and elopement; and "Nude with Violin" (1956, starring John Gielgud in London and Coward in

neg: Fumed Oak House, Manchester, beginning on 15 October 1935. "Fumed Oak" premiered on the third night, 18 October 1935. A seventh play was added on the subsequent provincial tour, and the final three were added for the London run. The first London performance was on 18 January 1936 at the Phoenix Theatre. Coward directed all ten pieces, and each starred Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. Coward said that he wrote them as "acting, singing, and dancing vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence and myself". The plays were performed in various combinations of three at each performance during the original run. The plays chosen for each

neg: Still Life (play) first presented at the Manchester Opera House beginning on 15 October 1935, and a seventh play, "Family Album", was added on the subsequent provincial tour. "Still Life", however, was added for the London run, together with "Ways and Means" and "Star Chamber", the last of which was performed only once. The first London performance in the cycle was on 9 January 1936 at the Phoenix Theatre but "Still Life" did not premiere until May 1936. Coward directed all ten pieces, and each starred Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. Coward said that he wrote them as "acting, singing, and dancing vehicles for

neg: Look After Lulu! Richardson and starred Vivien Leigh, with Robert Stephens, Anthony Quayle and Max Adrian. "The Daily Mail" wrote: "I came away reflecting that Noel Coward is Noel Coward, French farce is French farce, and never the twain should meet." Harold Hobson in "The Sunday Times" concurred: "If "Look After Lulu!" is only half a success, the reasons are more than complimentary to everyone concerned. The trouble is that Mr Coward is too witty, and Miss Leigh too beautiful. For the kind of play that "Look After Lulu!" is, beauty and wit are about as necessary as a peach melba at the

neg: Sweet Dream (2016 song) Sweet Dream (2016 song) "Sweet Dream" () is a song by South Korean artists Kim Hee-chul and Min Kyung-hoon, the two stars who are known as "Universe Cowards" . Their stage name is a mix of Heechul's nickname "Universe Star" and Buzz's song "Coward". "Sweet Dream" was released digitally by SM Entertainment on November 20, 2016. The song is a part of SM Station and is a collaboration single for the variety show "Knowing Bros". The song proved successful, topping the South Korean Gaon Digital Chart, an achievement known as "all-kill". The accompanying music video features the cast of "Knowing

neg: Sweet Dream (2016 song) Bros" and Twice's Momo. Sweet Dream (2016 song) "Sweet Dream" () is a song by South Korean artists Kim Hee-chul and Min Kyung-hoon, the two stars who are known as "Universe Cowards" . Their stage name is a mix of Heechul's nickname "Universe Star" and Buzz's song "Coward". "Sweet Dream" was released digitally by SM Entertainment on November 20, 2016. The song is a part of SM Station and is a collaboration single for the variety show "Knowing Bros". The song proved successful, topping the South Korean Gaon Digital Chart, an achievement known as "all-kill". The accompanying music video features

neg: Noël Coward the people we should have been seen dead with'." Churchill's view was that Coward would do more for the war effort by entertaining the troops and the home front than by intelligence work: "Go and sing to them when the guns are firing – that's your job!" Coward, though disappointed, followed this advice. He toured, acted and sang indefatigably in Europe, Africa, Asia and America. He wrote and recorded war-themed popular songs, including "London Pride" and "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans". His London home was wrecked by German bombs in 1941, and he took up temporary residence at