A very bright young man

NOEL COWARD last year turned from wit to patriotism, and his Cavalcade bathed all England in the tender tears of reminiscence. This young man whose brilliance, from The Vortex to Private Lives, approached the diabolical, became the stirring chronicler of a glorious all-British epoch. Cavalcade will be the second of Coward's plays to reach the screen: Fox is filming it for the American audience, and casting it with actors of an English stamp—Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard. But besides the sentimental drama of grand old pageantry, he still favors the dialogue of brittle society. Early in January Max Gordon will produce his latest work, Design for Living; the actors will be Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, and—to make a planetary duet into a starry trio—Noel Coward