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	Britmovie - Blithe Spirit 1945
		Blithe Spirit is, if nothing else, a radical departure from the mundane.
		His second wife Ruth (Constance Cummings) is unable to see the spectre, and at first believes it to be a poor practical joke by her husband, eventually Ruth becomes tired of his phantom assertion and calls upon eccentric medium Madame Arcati (Margaret Rutherford) to try and help out by contacting the ghost.
		Madame Arcati attempts to exorcise Elvira’s spirit but fails, an exasperated Condomine decides to kill himself so that he united with her Elvira and save his second wife number the annoyance of being haunted.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /directors/d_lean/filmography/007.html (225 words)

	The British Theatre Guide : Reviews - Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward (Derby Playhouse)
		Blithe Spirit should do that, not only due to its popularity but also because it's a slick, well-produced and solidly acted piece.
		Blithe Spirit, written by Coward in only five days, tells how author Charles Condomine invites a local medium, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct an after-dinner seance so that he can do research for his latest book.
		There were certainly plenty of blithe spirits both on and off the stage at the end.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /reviews/blithespirit-rev.htm (508 words)

	Blithe Spirit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Blithe Spirit Starring the highly acclaimed Penelope Keith in one of theatre's great comic roles, Note : Stephanie Cole will take over the role of 'Madame Arcati' from 4 April 2005 in Thea Sharrock's production of Noel Coward's classic comedy Blithe Spirit at The Savoy Theatre.
		Blithe Spirit - Blithe Spirit strikes me as being one of Coward's three indisputable comic masterpieces, and it's a real pleasure to welcome Thea Sharrock's outstanding revival, first seen in Bath this summer, to the Savoy, a theatre whose gleaming elegance suits the piece to perfection...
		The acting from every member of the cast is impeccable, and in these days of Friends Reunited and the lure of past relationships over the dull reality of the present, this Blithe Spirit is very much a play for today.
	www.londontheatreticketweb.co.uk /the_blithe.htm (375 words)

	Blithe Spirit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After the initial comic situation of Blithe Spirit is exploited — since Charles can see and hear Elvira’s ghost and his wife Ruth (Megan Bellwoar) cannot, she thinks he’s insulting her when he tells Elvira to shut up — you can begin to see what the play is really about.
		The three-way relationship between Charles, Elvira and Ruth in Blithe Spirit appears to be like the menage à trois to which the three characters in Design for Living inexorably return, or the elopement of Elyot and Amanda in Private Lives, who can’t live apart even if they can’t live peaceably together.
		By the time the dust settles on the "astral bigamy," we find out that it wasn’t Charles’ undying love for his wife that conjured up her ghost at the seance but the spectral affinities of the household’s new maid Edith (Madi Distefano, though played, delightfully, by understudy Erin Clare Hurley at the performance I attended).
	www.english.upenn.edu /~cmazer/blithe.html (557 words)

	Blithe Spirit: An Improbable Farce (Unabridged) Audio Book
		Blithe Spirit: An Improbable Farce (Unabridged) was authored by Noel Coward and is narrated by Corin Redgrave, Kika Markham, and full cast.
		Blithe Spirit: An Improbable Farce (Unabridged) is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
		Get Blithe Spirit: An Improbable Farce (Unabridged) audio book today and start improving your life by gaining knowledge and realize the joy that comes from treating yourself with the respect you deserve.
	www.audio-book.ws /books/blithe-spirit-improbable-farce.php (502 words)

	Mischievous 'Blithe Spirit' lives again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Winsome after nearly 60 years, "Blithe Spirit" is nowhere near as witty as "Private Lives," another, earlier Coward play about what happens to a second marriage when not all of the parties are entirely finished with their first.
		In "Blithe Spirit," though, the undying devotion is the literal kind.
		She is the blithest spirit in the bunch.
	www.freep.com /entertainment/newsandreviews/blithe5_20010305.htm (393 words)

	Press: UAA Brings "Blithe Spirit" to Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When I walked into the UAA Mainstage Theatre to catch their presentation of Noel Coward’s "Blithe Spirit," one of the first things I noticed was the empty seats.
		Anyone familiar with Coward’s canon knows the man is funny, and "Blithe Spirit" represents some of his best work.
		If UAA’s production of "Blithe Spirit" gets only half the attention it deserves, there shouldn’t be another empty seat from now until the final show.
	www.anchoragepress.com /archives/documentce38.html (677 words)

	Blithe Spirit - Noel Coward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Written and first produced in 1941, at a time when Britain faced destruction and invasion by Nazi forces, Blithe Spirit is a droll comedy about life and death in English society.
		He is a remarried widower, and the evening begins with a casual chat about his first wife Elvira’s seemingly unquenchable taste for life which came to an abrupt end six years before.
		Blithe Spirit at the Gate is harmless fun for the summer visitor and the local patron alike.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater2/BlitheSpirit.htm (904 words)

	‘Blithe Spirit’ features diverse cast
		Nowhere is that more evident than in the casting of its upcoming production, "Blithe Spirit," according to organizers.
		Charles invites Madame Arcati and another couple to an evening where he intends to have Arcati give a seance, since he is researching a mystery novel with a phoney soothsayer as the main character.
		Oswego Players will present "Blithe Spirit" in agreement with Samuel French, Inc. April 29 and 30 and May 6 through 8.
	www.valleynewsonline.com /News/2005/0402/Entertainment-Arts/007.html (227 words)

	Blithe Spirit
		There'll never be a better reason for spending a summer's evening indoors than Grasmere Players' gloriously stylish interpretation of the Noel Coward evergreen Blithe Spirit, which continues to run on June 26 and July 3/5/10 at the Grasmere Village Hall.
		The séance is conducted as a dinner party entertainment to provide Charles with material for his latest novel, but leaves him with a problem - the ghost of his first wife which neither his present wife, Ruth, nor their guests Dr and Mrs.
		Grasmere's Blithe Spirit is like strawberries and cream: a seasonal delight, luscious, juicy, with just a hint of sharpness - perfect for a summer's evening.
	www.grasmereplayers.co.uk /reviews/blithespirit.html (296 words)

	Blithe Spirit @ Filmbug
		She makes a series of rather odd and funny attempts to speak to the spirit world, and something changes, but the only one who knows it is Charles.
		Blithe Spirit is the story of a couple that is happy in every way.
		I consider it a tribute to the masterful direction of "Blithe Spirit" that I, a Connecticut baby-boomer born in 1950 and of Irish descent, instantly knew I was viewing real English society in this film.
	www.filmbug.com /asin/B0002CR018 (1754 words)

	arborweb reviews - review: Blithe Spirit
		The real assets of the production are the cast, for while Blithe Spirit is farce, it wants swift, delicate understatement rather than in-your-face buffoonery.
		Sandra Birch as Madame Arcati (the medium) is the only one who plays her part a bit too broadly — I would argue that her success in actually conjuring two spirits suggests that the character is really a consummate professional rather than an off-the-charts lunatic (the interpretation Birch favors).
		Special treats are Terry Heck, who sports a particularly elaborate Scottish accent, and Malcolm Tulip, a gifted physical actor who reins it all in to play a part defined by word calisthenics — and is rewarded with a great moment of physical comedy at the end.
	www.arborweb.com /reviews/0308.blithespirit-review.html (349 words)

	BLITHE - Definition
		[adj] carefree and happy and lighthearted; "was loved for her blithe spirit"; "a merry blithesome nature"; "her lighthearted nature"; "trilling songs with a lightsome heart"
		bl[=i]di kind, blithe.] Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit.
		A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/blithe (63 words)

	Theater Review Pioneer Press: "Blithe Spirit" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gremlin Theatre bravely takes on the willful ghost who saunters through "Blithe Spirit," but the acting nuance required to successfully present Noel Coward's play comes back to haunt the troupe.
		Ultimately, Elvira turns out to be more of a "blight spirit" than a blithe one in her effect on her former husband and his wife.
		Although Gremlin Theatre's production of "Blithe Spirit" may not be the best you'll ever see, it's still entertaining, and people new to the script will enjoy the unexpected twists and bits of wit that flash through it.
	www.renbox.com /print.asp?id=254 (505 words)

	Review: Blithe Spirit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The name is a phonetic pun on the name of R.H. Blyth, a student of Zen and a pioneer of bringing haiku into the English language during the forties and fifties.
		There is a regular "Season Corner" for haiku on the theme of a season: the journal always runs one season behind to give haijin a chance to absorb the spirit of the time and work through the composition process (for example the February 1994 issue's "Season Corner" was for autumn).
		In addition to publishing poetry there are usually articles on haiku and composition - for example, a couple of short pieces over recent issues have discussed the relation of haiku experience/composition to the right brain/left brain dichotomy: the intuitive insight of the originating haiku experience and the imposition of the structure of language.
	glwarner.narrowgate.net /haiku/7/xii.html (874 words)

	KDHX Theatre Review - Blithe Spirit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From Homer in his Odyssey to Stephen King, authors have found the world of the occult, of spirits and the next life, a medium for exploring profound ideas about God, humans, and the universe, and for scaring the insides out of people.
		Robert Ashton’s Charles and Eleanor Mullin’s Ruth try to cope, each in their individual ways, with the chaos this blithe spirit has wrought in their comfortably settled middle-aged lives.
		One of the great delights of this Blithe Spirit is the discovery of newcomer Starina Johnson, who plays the Condomine’s too-eager maid.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/blithe_spirit_0403.html (505 words)

	MetroActive Stage \| 'Blithe Spirit' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And, of course (surely you guessed/remembered this yourself), only Charles can see her, causing much uproarious confusion as he yells various invectives at the specter who cannily places herself just beyond Ruth's long-suffering shoulder so that it appears to all the world that he is really shouting at poor Ruth herself.
		Without a serious or mean-spirited bone in its body (of text), Blithe Spirit is a marvelous showcase for the brittle, breakneck witticisms and refined buffoonery for which Coward is rightly celebrated, and the Main Street cast is more than up to the challenge--they can even do that dreaded-British-accent-thing with ease and realism.
		Though overly long for this spirit to remain blithe through three acts and two intermissions, Blithe Spirit is in the end and at its best an F/X fest of the kind rarely seen in live theater.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/02.01.96/stage-9605.html (682 words)

	BBC - Wiltshire - Entertainment - Blithe Spirit at Theatre Royal Bath
		She last appeared in Time and the Conways in November 2003 and is back for a production of Noel Coward's ghostly classic Blithe Spirit which runs from Wednesday 18th August - Saturday 4th September.
		Blithe Spirit is Coward's own favourite play, which he wrote in a flush of almost supernatural inspiration in 1941.
		Blithe Spirit runs at Theatre Royal Bath from Wednesday 18th August - Saturday 4th September.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wiltshire/content/articles/2004/08/17/blithespirit_feature.shtml (306 words)

	Review of Blithe Spirit at Savoy Theatre
		Noel Coward’s frivolous comedy about death, Blithe Spirit, was first performed in 1941 during some of the worst of London’s blitz when the threat of a sudden violent death was a real and present reality.
		Some at the time, such as Graham Greene, thought Coward’s blithe approach to death was unseemly, but surely there was never a more apt time for a comedy to portray death as a gateway to a gay and carefree afterlife.
		For Charles marriage is a trap he increasingly wishes to break free from so that like a blithe spirit himself he can travel the world unrestricted.
	www.londontheatre.co.uk /londontheatre/reviews/blithe04.htm (565 words)

	Blithe Spirit - Noël Coward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Generally light on character development and long on wit and acute and bitchy observation of the manners of the day, the success of these plays in performance requires lightness, high style, and the capture of a somewhat arch, not a little campy attitude that is unique to Coward.
		Blithe Spirit (1941), a second tier comedy several steps down from Private Lives and Hay Fever, is nonetheless of sufficient quality to merit revival.
		It's uncomplicated plot has the ghost of a deceased wife, Elvira, return to haunt (and harass) her surviving husband, Charles Condomine, a writer who has remarried.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater2/BlitheSpirit(2).htm (688 words)

	Blithe Spirit
		I asked what the movie was, and it turned out to be David Lean’s 1945 film of Noel Coward’s comedy, Blithe Spirit, about an author (Rex Harrison) haunted by the spirit of his dead first wife, Elvira (Kay Hammond) and how it impacts his life with his second.
		I’ve recorded the opening titles, which you will find are more like the piece you’ve sent." Lo and behold, the MP3 file he sent me of Blithe Spirit’s opening titles — which I had always missed before — was very, very close to the first three minutes, ten seconds of music in the Afternoon Intro.
		Addinsell (1904-1977) has had the perhaps unfortunate fate of not only being eclipsed by a piece of his music, but by the name of a piece of his music.
	www.transdiffusion.org /emc/visionon/blithe (1117 words)

	Blithe Spirit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Written in the midst of the blitz during World War II, Blithe Spirit is set in the Kent country home of hyper-sophisticated author Charles Condomine.
		Noel Coward (1899-1973) was one of the most prolific and versatile writers of the twentieth century, having written thirty-one plays, eleven musicals, a handful of movies, eleven books, and numerous short stories.
		Among his notable plays are Hay Fever, Private Lives, Present Laughter, and of course, Blithe Spirit.
	www.bartontheatre.freeuk.com /blithe.htm (209 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Blithe Spirit
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Blithe Spirit
		Blithe Spirit, British motion picture comedy about an author pestered by the ghost of his dead wife, based on a play by Noel Coward.
		Soul, in many religions and philosophies, the immaterial element that, together with the material body, constitutes the human individual.
	encarta.msn.com /Blithe_Spirit.html (97 words)

	Blithe Spirit
		Blithe Spirit has always had stimulating and often learned articles on its menu and this issue is no exception — Annie Bachini's clarification of 'surreal haiku'; Martin Lucas' elegant examination of 'non-dualistic metaphor; Stephen Henry Gill's reportage of what's going in Japan (haiku-wise).
		Writing surreally is therefore proven to be rather more difficult than BLITHE SPIRIT staff might have originally supposed, and one reason might be the ecomonies of scale of the haiku form.
		BLITHE SPIRIT is a thought-provoking magazine which is not afraid to explore the wider poetic world and try to relate it to the world of haiku.
	www.nhi.clara.net /mg0134.htm (1561 words)

	KDHX Theatre Review - Blithe Spirit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When the concoction's base is a script whipped up by Sir Noel Coward, "the Master" with a self-avowed "talent to amuse," brewed by a talented director and cast, the audience can enjoy 60 year-old vintage spirits with a pungent aroma of sophistication and wit and the power to please-even today's college freshman.
		Light Designer Daniel Schnitzer bathed all in a warm glow except during the presence of the pesky spirits; unfortunately, though, the lighting of the seances sacrifices visibility to mood, diminishing somewhat their madcap potential.
		If you missed Blithe Spirit in Wash U's Hoetchner Studio, maybe it will re-materialize if selected for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Regional Festival.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/blithe_spirit.html (373 words)

	Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives : Three Plays (Vintage International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of the three, BLITHE SPIRIT and PRIVATE LIVES are best known to the general public through various film versions and frequent revivals.
		Coward was reknowned for his sophistocated and often acid turn of phrase, and all three of these plays contain enough outrageous situations and sharp-tongued lines to make even the worst sourpuss laugh loud enough to annoy the neighbors.
		I was a drama critic for nearly 12 years, saw hundreds of productions of all kinds from coast to coast in the US and a few in London, and never laughed harder or enjoyed myself more than at a regional US production of "Hay Fever" in the late 1970's.
	www.aaabooksearch.com /Reviews/067978179X (541 words)

	Blithe Spirit (1966) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Noël Coward wrote 'Blithe Spirit' in a single week(!) while staying in one of the guest cottages at the Hotel Portmeirion, a remarkable seaside resort in Gwynedd, North Wales.
		In fact, I vaguely recall another tv version of 'Blithe Spirit', in which Hattie Jacques was hilarious in the same role that Ruth Gordon handles so badly here.
		This tv version of 'Blithe Spirit' is enjoyable, but it's a pale wraith alongside the film version starring Rex Harrison and Margaret Rutherford.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0292454 (1071 words)

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