Barry Day - The Letters of Noel Coward

FRONTISPIECE Nol at typewriter

2 Nol by Derek Hill

4 The ever-watchful author

4 Nol Coward in rocking chair

5 Coward-san. Drawing by Makoto Wada

7 Drawing by Lynne Carey

11 Coward as a young boy

14 Violet Agnes (1863-1954)

15 Mary Kathleen Synch (1837-1908}

16 Aunt Vidal Sarah (Vida) Veitch (1854-1946)

17 Russell Arthur (1891-1898)

21 Program for Goldfish

21 Letter from Lila Field 24 Drawing by Nol Coward

25 Eric Vidal with Nol

26 Nol at a theatrical garden party

30 Rules of Palship between Nol and Esme Wynne

31 Letter to Esme Wynne

33 Charley's Aunt poster

43 Esme, Nol, and John Ekins

46 Esme Wynne

50 Lyrics

55 Drawing of Coward by William Auerbach-Levy. (Reproduced by permission of The Players Club, New York)

58 View of New York City

59 The Algonquin Round Table (Reproduced by permission of the Algonquin Hotel)

61 Laurette Taylor (1884-1946)

61 Lynn Fontanne

63 Nol and Edna Ferber

64 Alec Woollcott and Edna Ferber, drawing by James Montgomery Flagg

66 NeysaMcMein(1882-1949)

66 Drawing by Neysa McMein

68 Montage of characters

73 E. (Edith) Nesbit (1858-1924)

73 Illustration from The Enchanted Castle

80 Ned (Third Earl of) Lathom (1895-1930)

83 Edith Sitwell with brothers Osbert and Sacheverell

89 John (Jack) C. Wilson (1899-1961)

90 Lorn Loraine (1894-1967)

91 Nol, Jack, and Gertie

95 Natasha and Jack in 1937

103 Lorn Loraine works with her assistant and successor, Joan Sparks (Hirst)

108 The Vortex (1924)

111 Basil Dean(1888-1978)

112 Act 3 of The Vortex

113 London Pavilion

118 Gladys Calthrop (1894-1980)

121 Edna Best (1900-1974)

123 Nol in trilby hat

124 Nol on the SS Bremen (1933) 128 Goldenhurst

134 Nol in front of Pan Am plane

137 Dame Marie Tempest (18641942)

140 Edward Molyneux (1891-1974)

140 Molyneux's house, La Capponcina, on Cap d'Ail, Cote d'Azur

147 This Year of Grace poster (U.S.)

149 Bitter Sweet sheet music

153 Caricatures of Beatrice Lillie and Nol

155 Bitter Sweet vocal score

156 Ivor Novello (1893-1951)

158 Peggy Wood, Evelyn Laye, and C. B. Cochran

164 Beverley Nichols (1898-1983) and Nol

166 Nol with leis

167 Jeffrey Amherst and Nol

172 Lyrics of Mad Dogs

176 Nol and noonday gun

178 Caricatures of Nol and Gertie by Tony Walton

179 Gertie and Bea Lillie in New York

180 Gertie and Nol in profile

184 Bea Lillie, Bobbie Andrews, Gertie, and Nol at Goldenhurst

203 Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)

209 Nol and Gertie at the piano

216 The Play pictorial (Private Lives)

223 Nol as tragedy and comedy

225 Nol and Willie Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

235 Arnold Wesker

248 Enid Bagnold (1899-1991)

256 Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)

263 Jane Marryot (Mary Clare)

264 The Play pictorial (Cavalcade)

267 C. B. Cochran

269 Gladys Calthrop

272 Cavalcade film still

275 Program for Design for hiving

276 Lynn, Alfred, and Nol in the Lunts home

277 Lunts and dogs

278 Nol with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford

278 Nol with Chico Marx, Maurice Chevalier, Herman Mankiewicz, Groucho Marx, and Harpo Marx

278 Nol with Robert Montgomery

280 Erik Coward

284 Triptych of Nol and Lynn and Alfred

285 Gilda (Lynn), Leo (Nol), and Otto (Alfred)

290 Drawing by Lynn Fontanne

292 Sheet music for Regency Rakes

294 Yvonne Printemps (1895-1977)

308 Nol in The Scoundrel

310 Nol in the rain

316 Marlene and Nol in car

317 Nol and Marlene with children

329 Marti Stevens, Marlene, and Kay Thompson

331 Nol and Marlene in old age

332 Nol composing at Goldenhurst

333 Tonight at 8:30 sheet music cover

334 Nol in his dressing room

335 Gertie and Nol in Shadow Play

338 Cartoons

339 Weekly Illustrated

344 Drawing by James Thurber

345 The young John Gielgud

351 Schloss Kammer-am-Attersee, in Austria

352 Eleanora von Mendelssohn (1899-1951)

354 Fritzi Massary (1882-1969)

361 Bea Lillie

362 Cap d'Antibes, 1931

366 Nol with Union Jack (Caricature by Vicky)

366 Nol's personal philosophy

368 Nol in battle dress

369 Robert (later Lord) Vansittart (1881-1957)

370 Nol being fitted for a gas mask

372 Dame Rebecca West (1892-1982)

385 Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton) (1888-1965)

395 Sir William (Little Bill) Stephen-son (1896-1989)

401 Roosevelt and Churchill

411 Nol at piano with children

419 Nol with a koala bear

420 Richard (later Baron) Casey (1890-1976) and his wife

422 Nol making a speech

425 Nol at his typewriter

428 Film poster

435 Lyrics of Germans

438 Lord Louis (1900-1979) and Lady Edwina (1901-1960) Mountbatten

440 The Redgraves

446 Nol and Mountbatten

449 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

458 Program cover for Broadway production of Blithe Spirit

460 Nol and Clifton Webb (1893-1966)

463 In Which We Serve (1942)

464 Ann Todd, Joyce Carey, Peggy Ashcroft, and Celia Johnson

465 Off-set moment from In Which We Serve

470 Poster for In Which We Serve

482 Nol with unidentified friend

484 Judy Campbell and Nol

485 Playbill

489 Nol in Gibraltar

490 Nol in the Middle East

503 Poster for the film Brief Encounter

511 Nol and Gertie with shadows

513 Sigh No More program

514 White Cliffs, Kent

515 Nol and designer Gladys Calthro] with Mary Martin