Download or read book Who s a Coward a Comedy Classic Reprint written by Katharine Kavanaugh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Who's a Coward? A Comedy Bessie and Jimmie Graham, who have been married a year, are beginning to observe each other's faults. The curtain rises on a family jar and in the heat of argument she declares that her husband is a "fraid cat," a coward, because he refused, the night before, to get up and search the house for a burglar. He resents the charge, decides to prove to her that he is really a brave man and telephones a chum to come that night, disguised, and play burglar. Bessie somewhat penitent but still intent on proving her point, makes a similar arrangement for the same evening with a cousin. Dippy Hogan, a real burglar, appears and is both puzzled and delighted at the reception given him by Jimmie and Bessie, who alternately enter and exit, bringing their valuables and hurriedly stuffing them into his bag, which he brought to carry away the plunder. It is such a soft game, however, that Dippy decides he must be either in an insane asylum or else has run into a trap, and escapes with the swag. Simultaneously by letter and telephone the cousin and chum notify Bessie and Jimmie that they cannot come. It soon dawns upon the quarrelsome pair that they were entertaining a real burglar, that the lesson they had attempted to teach each other had proven a boomerang and that they had both been severely stung. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Humorists written by Paul Johnson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It is Johnson’s gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we would…recognize them instantly, while also illuminating what made them heroes.” —Washington Post Book World on Heroes “Johnson is a clear, intelligent, forceful writer, and nothing if not thorough.” —Wall Street Journal Paul Johnson, the acclaimed author of Creators, Heroes, and the New York Times bestseller Intellectuals, returns with a captivating collection of biographical portraits of the Western world’s greatest wits and humorists. With chapters dedicated to history’s sharpest tongues and most piercing pens, including Benjamin Franklin, Toulouse-Lautrec, G.K. Chesterton, Damon Runyan, W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, and many more, Johnson’s Humorists is an exciting compendium of our most enduring comical and satirical innovators.
Download or read book Classical Hollywood Comedy written by Kristine Brunovska Karnick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.
Download or read book The No l Coward Reader written by Noel Coward and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader brings together the best of Noël Coward's short stories, verse, songs, plays, screenplays, etc.
Download or read book Design for Living written by Noël Coward and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.
Download or read book Classic CD written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nude with Violin written by Noel Coward and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1958 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Classic Silent Screen Comedies Starring Harold Lloyd written by Donald W. McCaffrey and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is on three of Harold Lloyd's features, Grandma's Boy (1922), Safety Last (1923), and The Freshman (1925), and it presents a thorough investigation of the structure, characters, and comic techniques employed in these films.
Download or read book Hay Fever written by Noël Coward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquieting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being able to restrain oneself." - Evening Standard When four guests, all invited by different members of the Bliss family, arrive for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead, they're expecting a idyllic retreat. But this peaceful promise is quickly trounced when the self-absorbed eccentricities of the Blisses are trained on the guests, who leave the country mansion humiliated and embarrassed. First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is a technical masterpiece, seamlessly combining high farce with a comedy of manners, and delivering Coward his first major commercial success. This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 125th anniversary of Coward's birth and features a new introduction by Michael Billington.
Download or read book I ll Leave It to You written by Noel Coward and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from I'll Leave It to You: A Light Comedy in Three Acts A plan of the stage of the New Theatre, London, set for the play is given at the end of the book. Scene - The Hall of Mulberry Manor. All the furniture looks very comfortable. Through the window can be seen a glimpse of a snowy ga/rden there is a log fire. The light is a little dim, being late afternoon. Seated on the table swinging her legs is joyce, she is attired in a fur coat and goloshes, very little else can be seen, except a pink healthy looking young face. Sylvia is seated on the Chester field B. She is twenty-one and exceedingly pretty. It is about five days before Christmas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Kill the Boy Band written by Goldy Moldavsky and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling debut story of four superfan friends whose devotion to their favorite band has darkly comical and deadly results. Just know from the start that it wasn’t supposed to go like this. All we wanted was to get near them. That’s why we got a room in the hotel where they were staying. We were not planning to kidnap one of them. Especially not the most useless one. But we had him—his room key, his cell phone, and his secrets. We were not planning on what happened next. We swear. Praise for Kill the Boy Band “Moldavsky’s sharp, shocking debut is like no other.” —Entertainment Weekly “Fiercely entertaining . . . One of the smartest YA releases of the year.” —New York Daily News “Misery for the Belieber generation.” —Observer.com “Boy bands gets the Heathers treatment in this madcap macabre . . . A sendup of the artificiality of the fame-making machine from both sides, the novel’s humor is mercilessly black, and no one comes up smelling like roses.” —Kirkus Reviews “Wickedly funny.” —NPR.org “Bitingly satirical.” —Publishers Weekly “[For] anyone who’s ever had the fortune-or misfortune-of being a fan.” —Booklist “Hilarious . . . A must-have.” —School Library Journal
Download or read book Design for Living written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The actual facts are so simple. I love you. You love me. You love Otto. I love Otto. Otto loves you. Otto loves me. There now! Start to unravel from there.' Design for Living is a wickedly witty dark romantic comedy by Noel Coward. Initially banned in the UK, this provocative play portrays three amoral, glib and stylish characters and their hopelessly inescapable, if also unconventional, emotional entanglement. From 1930s bohemian Paris to the dizzying heights of Manhattan society, a tempestuous love triangle unravels between a vivacious interior designer, Gilda, playwright Leo and artist Otto - three people unashamedly and passionately in love with each other. They are trapped in what Coward called 'a three-sided erotic hodge podge.' With Coward's trademark piquant style, this lively, funny but also atypical play looks at dazzling, egotistical creatures and their self-destructive dependence on each other. Exploring themes of bisexuality, celebrity, success and self-obsession, Design for Living is a stylish and scandalous comedy.
Download or read book Hands Across the Sea written by Noël Coward and published by Samuel French , Limited. This book was released on 1938 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy / Characters: 6 male, 3 femaleScenery: InteriorOne of the Tonight At 8:30 series produced in London and New York. Lady Gilpin (Piggie) is so busy with social duties and gossip that she has no time for coherent thinking. She is set aflutter when her drawing room is suddenly filled with her husband's naval conferees, blueprint delivery boys and dumpy Mr. and Mrs. Wadhurst from the Far East, who flighty Piggie mistakes for the Rawlingsons. The Wadhursts overhear intimate phone conversations, are stumbled over, spilled upon and completely ignored before Piggie finally gets it straight.
Download or read book Three Plays written by Noël Coward and published by . This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Lives written by Noel Coward and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Een gescheiden echtpaar ontmoet elkaar weer na vijf jaar, terwijl zij beiden op huwelijksreis zijn met hun nieuwe partner.
Download or read book Oh Coward written by Noel Coward and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The script of the music comedy review Oh Coward! -- containing the best of Noel Coward's musical comedies, songs, skits and excerpts from his plays.
Download or read book Hay Fever written by Noel Coward and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First produced in 1925, "Hay Fever" is technically a masterpiece. A comedy of bad manners which starts with the arrival of four guests, invited independently by different members of the Bliss family for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The promise of an idyllic and peaceful weekend is quickly trounced by the self-absorbed eccentricities of the family who leave the guests to slink away humiliated, embarrassed and abandoned. ""It does not date… it is in the highest mood of fantastic comedy, it is deliciously heartless and therefore delicioiusly alive and fresh" "The Times
