Masculine, Assertive, Athletic and Elegant
E.S. Turner, 30 November 1995
Noël Coward: A Biography
by Philip Hoare.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 605 pp., £25, November 1995,1 85619 265 2 Show More
by Philip Hoare.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 605 pp., £25, November 1995,
“... absorb this salutary lesson? Bumptiously cultivating men of letters, he met and greatly irritated Siegfried Sassoon and Wilde’s friend Robert Ross. On Armistice Day he was to be seen in a tail-coat in a Rolls-Royce belonging to an epicene Chilean opium addict, a pretty example of feasting with panthers. Six years of dangerous living in the theatre were ... ”