A Talent to Amuse: A Life of Noel Coward by Sheridan Morley

Author:Sheridan Morley [Morley, Sheridan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Dean Street Press
Published: 2016-09-04T16:00:00+00:00

Reaching the Argentine early in 1932, Noël’s sightseeing and his peace of mind were simultaneously interrupted by a telegram from Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in New York: CONTRACT WITH THEATRE GUILD UP IN JUNE WE SHALL BE FREE WHAT ABOUT IT?

‘It’ was a plan that Coward and the Lunts had first formulated all those years ago in New York. One day, they had said, when they were all stars in their own right and happened to be simultaneously free, they would act together in a play of Noël’s:

‘We had met, discussed, argued, and parted again many times, knowing that it was something that we wanted to do very much indeed and searching wildly through our minds for suitable characters. At one moment we were to be three foreigners. Lynn, Eurasian; Alfred, German; and I, Chinese. At another we were to be three acrobats, rapping out “Allez Oops” and flipping handkerchiefs at one another. A further plan was that the entire play should be played in a gigantic bed, dealing with life and love in the Schnitzler manner. This, however, was hilariously discarded after Alfred had suggested a few stage directions which, if followed faithfully, would undoubtedly have landed all three of us in gaol.’

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