NEW COWARD PLAY
* AN « IMPROBABLE FARCE » (F.0.0.C.) LONDON. June 17. An audience at the. Opera House, Manchester, cheered for several minutes after the first performance of “Blithe Spirit,” the new play by Mr Noel Coward, who recently returned* to England after a visit to Australia and New Zealand. After the performance Mr Coward made the longest curtain speech in his career. “Blithe Spirit,’’ which Mr Coward describes as an improbable farce, is made quite easy of acceptance by his craftsmanship. A remarried widower conjures back at a seance the puckish spirit of his first wife. The complications with the second wife are not resolved until she too enters the astral plane, from which point the harassed husband has two ghosts to contend with. It sounds macabre, yet Mr Coward made it all good fun. Cecil Parker plays the husband and Fay Compton and Kay Hammond the two wives. “Blithe Spirit” goes to Leeds next week and opens at the Piccadilly Theatre op July 2.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23405, 12 August 1941, Page 2
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