Imagine going to Boston to hear dialogue like this:
"Do you care for bingo?"
"Who is bingo?"
Nonetheless. Loelia. Duchess of Westminster, did. So did Judy Garland. Richard Rodgers. Howard Lindsay, Russell Grouse. Alfred Lunt. Lynn Fontanne. and so on down the gold-plated guest list at the out-of-town premiere last week of Noel Coward's new musical comedy, Sail Away. The show will open in Manhattan Oct. 3, but first Coward's story, set on a Mediterranean cruise ship, will probably undergo a considerable shakedown. Involving miscellaneous love stories, particularly the experiences of an American wife (Jean Fenn) who loses her inhibitions under the...
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