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Inthe 1920s and 1930s Noel Coward mastered and defined the art of therevue sketch - short and often topical or satirical stage pieces, manyof which were a lead-in to his famous songs. He wrote these sketchesfor the top revues of the 1920s and 1930s, including London Calling (1923) and Cochrane's Revue of 1931. This volume collects Coward's bestand most witty pieces, including Rain Before Seven, the only sketch heperformed with Gertrude Lawrence, and the hilarious parody, Some OtherPrivate Lives, in which Coward burlesques his own famous play, PrivateLives. Also...

The definitive account, in his own words, of one of the most popular figures in British theatre.

The second and concluding volume of No?l Coward's legendary autobiography includes Future Indefinite and the unfinished Past Unconditional. With his trademark wit, Coward delivers anecdotes about his travels in South America, Hollywood encounters with an array of contemporary stars and directors, and his later theatrical successes, including the Broadway triumph of Design For Living. The showbiz glamour aside, we also encounter a middle-aged man coming to terms with a...

This one-volume edition contains the complete collection of Coward's twenty short stories, spanning fifty years of his working life. Written with Coward's inimitable poise and wit, the stories variously describe back-stage intrigues, Hollywood champagne breakfasts, suburban romances and gossip round the captain's table. He reveals himself as a consummate prose stylist demonstrating why, for all his success in virtually every other field of entertainment, he returned again and again to the short story.

In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious studies department that offers courses on Western and Eastern religions as well as religion in general. Harold Coward addresses this change in this memoir of his forty-five-year career in the development of religious studies as a new academic field in Canada. He also addresses the shift from theology classes in...