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Noël Coward's blitz spirit by Simon Callow

Noël Coward wanted to be a spy, but Churchill said he should stick to theatre. So his contribution to the war effort was to stage a 'light comedy about death' as London was bombedNoël Coward had a rather trying war. In fact, he had two rather trying wars. In 1918 he was drafted into the Labour Corps, but managed to bribe a sergeant into giving him access to an officer who " Coward suggests an element …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 1:31pm on February 21, 2014

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