Lot 395
Coward, Noel (1899-1970) English actor, playwright, and composer. Autograph Letter Signed ("Noêl") on stationery from Alfred House (Nursing Home), London, September 29, 1934, 5 pp, 8 x 6 in. A wonderful letter from Coward to Edna Ferber, describing the actors in The Royal Family (or Theatre Royal), a play written by Ferber and George Kaufman and directed by Coward. In part: "Ferber my little darling, This is just to tell you we have had an last Dress Rehearsal & it looks pretty good. Larry Olivier is playing Tony for the 1st two weeks on the road & is marvellous….I think you'd be delighted with the whole cast with one notable exception & that is W. Graham Browne…who, owing to being very old indeed & unable to act at all…will present to a resigned public one of the most degraded characterisations of the modern Theatre….Marie Tempest will not appear without him & she is beyond words superb as Fanny….I am better now…& shall join the play…in Glasgow & devote the last two weeks on the road to polishing up….I think "The Royal Family" ("Theatre Royal") is one of the most superbly written & brilliantly constructed plays that I have ever had anything to do with…."
Estimated Value $500 - 700.
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