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Have previously read one collection of Noel Coward's stories in "Star Quality". Enjoyed them immensely. His lightweight productions - songs and romantic comedies and cabaret shows - seem to have swamped his other more serious works. To the extent that the recent film "Easy Virtue" based on an early play, has been described by the critic of Empire Magazine as: "Bright and breezy...a sweetly charming film." The film is venemous; witty, amusing but with a very nasty edge to it, as a mother does her darndest to destroy her son's marriage to an older American divorcee. His duty is to rescue the estate of this ailing landed gentry English family. The romantic ending will probably taste a little bitter to many Romantics. Coward was no sentimentalist, no member of the Establishment, very UN-straight. I'm looking forward to some wicked and delicious and gutsy stuff in this edition of the Complete Short Stories!!!!!

2023-01-17 04:29