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	Noel Coward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Noel Peirce Coward (spelling his forename Noël with the diaeresis was an affectation of later life) (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music.
		Coward intended to star in Suite in Three Keys on Broadway but was unable to travel due to illness; the lead roles in the plays in New York were eventually taken by Hume Cronyn.
		Coward was a neighbour of James Bond creator Ian Fleming in Jamaica, whom he considered a poseur.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Noel_Coward (1315 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Sir Noel Coward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Out came the ever-racy Coward's talent for controversy, as he starred in and directed this tale of a drug addict who is, for all intents and purposes, in love with his mother.
		Worthington." The lyrics prove Coward's masterful wit, for example, when the title character is urged to discourage her daughter from a life in theater: "She's a bit of an ugly duckling you must honestly confess.
		Coward was destined to create a larger-than-life image of English elegance, to become a true personality whose words and creations were as well-cut as his clothes.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1375 (730 words)

	Noël Coward
		Coward was too young to be drafted when the war broke out in 1914, so he appeared in several plays, building his professional reputation.
		Coward spent several weeks recovering at a private beach house, lying in the sun and dashing off just one song – “A Room With a View.” When he finally returned to England, he wisely avoided performing for more than a year and focused on his writing.
		As Coward's health went into a steady decline, he cut back on public appearances, but he fully enjoyed the ongoing re-discovery of his works that friends affectionately called "Dad's Renaissance." His 70th Birthday in 1969 became a national celebration in Britain, and he was finally granted his knighthood the following year.
	www.queens-theatre.co.uk /biographies/noelcoward.htm (1522 words)

	Blithe Spirit, Noel Coward
		Noel Coward was an actor, playwright and composer who produced some of the most popular and enduring writing of any Englishman during the 20th Century.
		Noel Coward wrote Blithe Spirit during a stay at Portmeirion in 1941, after his London office and apartment had been destroyed in the Blitz.
		Coward felt the public would want something amusing and escapist during the dark days of the war, when Russia and the USA had yet to join forces with the Allies.
	www.benchtheatre.org.uk /plays0506/spirit.html (774 words)

	Cowardice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		You may be looking for Coward, South Carolina, or for the playwright Noel Coward.
		It would therefore have meant "one with a tail" — perhaps one in the habit of turning it, or it may be derived from a dog's habit of tucking its tail between its legs when it is afraid.
		The English surname Coward, however, has the same origin and meaning as the word "cowherd".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cowardice (319 words)

	BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Noel Coward
		A masterly wit, playwright and composer of songs, Noel Coward was the son of a piano salesman living in genteel poverty.
		Encouraged by his mother, Coward followed a professional acting career from the age of 12, and his success as a child actor contributed to the family's finances.
		Coward also had a serious, patriotic side, as could be seen in his 1931 pageant, Cavalcade, which delineated the lives of 2 families, one rich, one poor, from the beginning of the century onwards.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/cowardn2.shtml (531 words)

	Noel Coward: Biography - Part 1
		Noel Peirce Coward was born on December 16, 1899, and received his first name because Christmas was just days away.
		Noel's younger brother Eric suffered from chronic poor health that kept him in the background for most of his short life.
		While all this was happening, Noel put the finishing touches on a daring drama that would change his career – and his life – forever.
	www.musicals101.com /noelbio.htm (1218 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Noel Coward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Noël Coward was born in Teddington, Middlesex, to lower middle-class parents, a few days before Christmas, on 16 December 1899 ; which is why he was baptized “ Noël ”.
		By then, the Coward family had moved to London, to Ebury Street, where their nextdoor-neighbour was the great actress Edith Evans.
		But Coward was also praised for his brilliant theatrical sense, his command of stagecraft, his exceptional manipulation of situations to create surprise and shock and “ his skill at making the superficial and sentimental appear profound and moving ” (Kenneth Richards).
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1043 (682 words)

	NOEL COWARD
		Mention the name Noel Coward to most people, and they immediately think of silk dressing gowns and cigarette holders, with a very clear clipped voice, evoking the greatest of Britishness aristocracy, but nothing could be further from the truth.
		Noel was given his first engagement at one and a half guineas a week, to which Mrs Coward replied that she couldn't afford that, but was promtly told that it was she who would be getting the money, not having to pay!
		Noel Coward: An Audio Biography is a celebration of Britain's Best Loved Playwright, and the releases have been made as a tribute to the centenary of his birth.
	www.britishdrama.org.uk /coward.html (1312 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Celebrating Coward's centenary
		"Noel Coward was a friend, and I had worked with him in Blithe Spirit which we shot live on television," she explained.
		Coward was born in Teddington in 1899 and became one of the most successful, wittiest and prolific of British playwrights.
		Though Coward was a master of pithy social observation, many of his works also tackled serious and controversial issues - particularly those which dealt with the issue of his own homosexuality.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/564474.stm (754 words)

	Noel Coward
		The Nol Coward Diaries is a social and theatrical chronicle as stylish and irresistible as the man himself.
		Coward wrote The Vortex in 1924, produced it in London with himself in the leading role, and in 1925 appeared in it in New York City.
		Noel Coward, the gifted Englishman who would have celebrated his 100th birthday in December, went to his grave without publicly acknowledging his homosexuality.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/c/coward_noel.htm (722 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Whipped Cream
		Noel Coward rarely writes of the family, but the majority of his works, though suavely ensconced in the conventions of the drawing-room play, really partake of the family situation, its clannishness, incestuous familiarity, tiffs ("Now then!" "Now then what?").
		Coward has ever spent one hour in the study of ethics." The thought of Noel Coward spending one hour with the Nicomachean Ethics is of the same magnitude as the thought of Eliot spending an hour in a whorehouse.
		Coward's nostalgia is for fine folk and fine talk, and, beyond that, the upright millions in steerage class, who keep the ship of state afloat.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/11765 (2879 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Coward, Sir Noël
		Yet, his homosexuality was an open secret among the cognoscenti in the world of the theater and in the cafe society in which he held sway for five decades.
		Born Noël Pierce Coward on December 19, 1899, in Teddington, a village near London, he was the son of an ineffectual piano salesman and a doting mother.
		Coward, who had a genius for friendship, would later count among his friends such members of the British aristocracy as His Royal Highness George, Duke of Kent (with whom he may have had an affair), Lord and Lady Mountbatten, and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/coward_n_art.html (801 words)

	The Noel Coward Story
		And yet, Coward's first major success as a playwright was in 1924 with The Vortex, a scathing picture of the English upper class which included a "toyboy" for an older woman, drugs, and hints of homosexuality as well.
		Coward successfully reinvented himself as a cabaret performer, playing on his fame, his show business connections, and the familiarity of some of his songs to attract a new generation of admirers.
		The Life of Noel Coward loses some steam in the second half, providing us more detail than we really need about the Swiss and Jamaican residences, how the lobster mousse would not defrost when the Queen Mother was coming for lunch, about the recipe for Bullshots, Coward's favorite cocktail.
	www.culturevulture.net /Television/NoelCoward.htm (821 words)

	Noel Coward - The films, movies, cinema, theatre, biography of British movie actor
		Noel Coward was born in Teddington, Middlesex, over 105 years ago, to a very ordinary family.
		Noel was given his first engagement at one and a half guineas a week, to which Mrs Coward replied that she couldn't afford that, but was promptly told that it was she who would be getting the money, not having to pay!
		Although Noel was allegedly homosexual, there is no doubt that Gertrude Lawrence played one of the most important roles in his stage and sometimes private life.
	www.britishcinemagreats.com /Actors_page/noel_coward/noel_coward_page_1.htm (491 words)

	Noel Coward 101
		Of all the remarkable figures who peopled the 20th Century, none was even remotely comparable to Noel Coward.
		Born the son of an unsuccessful piano salesman, Coward had no more than a few years of elementary school education.
		My hope in these few pages is to give you some sense of what made Coward one of the premiere figures of an era that desperately needed his laughter and charm.
	www.musicals101.com /noel.htm (243 words)

	Article about Noel Coward: Actor, Writer, Start
		Of course Coward is as much remembered now for his films as for his live performances.
		When asked if he would be godfather to Noel he declined, saying that as four of his five godchildren had died (including Russell) he felt perhaps he was a bad choice of godparent.
		Coward had no formal music training and although he did take singing lessons to work on his technique, he was a self-taught pianist who never took a single piano lesson in his whole life.
	www.retirement-matters.co.uk /noelc.htm (1002 words)

	Biography for Noel Coward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Noel Coward virtually invented the concept of Englishness for the 20th century.
		Coward's style was imitated everywhere, as otherwise quite normal Englishmen donned dressing gowns, stuck cigarettes in long holders and called each other "dahling"; his revues propagated the message, with songs sentimental ("A Room With A View", "I'll See You Again") and satirical ("Mad Dogs and Englishmen", "Don't Put Your Daughter On the Stage, Mrs.
		HRH The Prince Edward unveiled a statue of Coward at a gathering of the Broadway theatre community on Monday, 1 March 1999 at the Gershwin Theatre (221 West 51st St.).
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0002021/bio (1263 words)

	A Room with a View - Noel Coward
		The deliberate style and sophistication of his lyrics have sometimes meant that their deeper meanings have gone unappreciated by later audiences accustomed to less subtle statements and more impassioned vocal performances than were fashionable at the time.
		Coward wrote about loneliness ("If Love Were All") and the fear of aging ("Mad About The Boy").
		On the other hand, Coward undoubtedly developed a more confident and varied vocal style over the years (albeit set against a deterioration in vocal quality) and, heard back to back, these early recordings all begin to sound a little similar in tone.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/CowardRoom.htm (481 words)

	PeoplePlay UK - Noël Coward
		Noël Coward was to dominate British theatre for a generation as a playwright, composer, lyricist, actor and manager.
		Coward wrote classics of high comedy that enshrine the period in which they were written: Hay Fever captures the spirit of the 1920s, the sophisticated Private Lives the 1930s and This Happy Breed the 1940s.
		Coward’s most spectacular show was Cavalcade which opened in 1930 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
	www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /guided_tours/musicals_tour/musicals_stars/coward.php (372 words)

	Alibris: Noel Coward
		Coward's only full-length work of fiction is a comic romp set among colonialists on the Island of Samolo.
		Noel Coward's brilliant wit, barbed humor and clear, uncompromising eye for human foibles is clearly revealed in his masterpiece Private Lives.
		Noel Coward's glorious wit and dramatic precision combine to form his 1930s masterpiece about modern romance.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Coward,Noel (633 words)

	Coward, Sir Noel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Coward gained prominence in 1924 acting in his The Vortex.
		He also wrote revues, sketches, musical comedies, and operettas and was the most successful English composer of theater music in the mid-20th cent.
		Coward also wrote short stories and a novel, Pomp and Circumstance (1960), performed in cabaret, made recordings, and wrote three autobiographical works, Present Indicative (1937), Middle East Diary (1945), and Future Indefinite (1954).
	www2.bartleby.com /65/co/Coward-S.html (282 words)

	Knitting Circle Noël Coward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When Coward published his anti-war polemic, Post-Mortem, just a year before Cavalcade, it seemed he was playing up to their expectations, ready to rub along with the Pylon Boys of the next decade.
		There is love in abundance in Coward's work, but it is scotched, scorched, frozen love, the suffocated variety that Wilde, Maugham and Rattigan articulated and found a way of making resonant for everyone beyond their immediate tribe.
		"The question of Coward's stature as a tunesmith is, in the end, a subjective one; it may be that the melodic subtlety of his songs, their harmonic twists and turns, makes them more perishable than the great standards of the American tradition.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/noelcoward.html (3216 words)

	Noel, Noel - honoring Noel Coward, one of Ayn Rand's favorite playwrights -- The Atlas Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coward also composed and performed songs of equal sophistication and wit.
		Coward was a clever composer, and, as a lyricist, of course: beyond clever.
		For true devotees, The Noel Coward Society, headquartered in Britain, maintains a Web site (www.noelcoward.net) devoted to all aspects of his life and career.
	www.atlassociety.org /noel-coward.asp (242 words)

	Noel Coward - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Noel Coward - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Coward, Sir Noel Pierce (1899-1973), English playwright, actor, producer, and composer.
		Even the youngest of us will know, in fifty years' time, exactly what we mean by 'a very Noel Coward sort of person.'
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Noel_Coward.html (113 words)

	The History of Jamaica - Captivated by Jamaica
		On that trip he was determined to claim a piece of his dream island for his own and settled on a slope 10 miles away from Goldeneye with a magical view of the sea.
		Coward lived most of the year at Firefly, where he painted and wrote in peace, comforted by a magnificent panoramic view of the sea.
		The two were later married in Port Maria with Jamaican 'neighbour' Noel Coward as a witness.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /pages/history/story0033.html (2042 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Noel Coward Diaries: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Noel Coward’s diaries, chronicling the last 30 years of his full life.
		For over half a century Noel Coward was British Theatre's most renowned dramatist, director and star, and one of the most colourful characters who ever strode across its stage.
		Published to coincide with the centenary of Coward's birth, these diaries chronicle the last 30 years of his life, from his war-time concert tours, through his private and professional depression in the 1950s to his triumphant re-emergence in the 1960s and knighthood in 1970.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1842120662 (542 words)

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