BIBLIOGRAPHY

This Bibliography supplies the sources of quotations used or references given in the narratives and Index. All significant sources and quotations are acknowledged by a bold letter code in square brackets, e.g. [NCSB]. "Significant" in this context means a good part of a sentence or more.
Works by Noël Coward

[NCA]

Noël Coward, Autobiography (complete, consisting of Present Indicative, Future Indefinite and Past Conditional) (Methuen, 1986)

[NCCS]

Noël Coward - the Complete Stories (Methuen, 1985)

[NCD]

The Noël Coward Diaries (Ed.Payn & Morley /Weidenfeld & Nicolson,1982)

[NCL]

The Lyrics of Noël Coward (Heinemann, 1965) [and see [BD] below]

[NCMED]

Noël Coward, Middle East Diary (Heinemann, 1944)

[NCSB]

Noël Coward Song Book (Michael Joseph, 1954 & reprints)

[further details of this publication in Appendix 2a: No.3]

[NCSL]

Collected Sketches and Lyrics (Hutchinson & Co., 1932)

[NCCV]

Noël Coward - Collected Verse (Methuen, 1984)

Works about Noël Coward by others

[BD]

Noël Coward - The Complete Lyrics, (Edited and anotated by Barry Day, Methuen, London, 1998)

[BG]

Let's Face the Music - The Golden Age of Popular Song [Chapter 4] (Benny Green / Pavilion Books Ltd. ,1989)

[CL]

The Life of Noël Coward ['Remembered Laughter' in US] (Cole Lesley/ Jonathan Cape, 1976)

[CP]

A Talent to Compose (Christopher Palmer/ 'Performing Right' No.60, October 1973) (Performing Right Society Ltd.)

[CS&AB]

Firefly - Noël Coward in Jamaica (Chris Salewicz and Adrian BootVictor Gollancz, 1999)/

[DV]

The Potency of Cheap Music (Dominic Vlasto, in Look Back inPleasure - Noël Coward Remembered, ed. Kaplan/University of Birmingham/Methuen, 2000)

[GP]

My Life With Noël Coward (Graham Payn, with Barry Day/Applause Books,1994)

[JL]

Coward (John Lahr / Methuen, 1982)

[M&M]

Theatrical Companion to Coward (Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson/ Rockliff Publishing Corp., 1957) New Updated Edition: Eds. Day & Morley/Oberon Books London, 2000)

[NC&F]

Noël Coward and His Friends (Lesley, Payn, Morley/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979)

[PB]

The Amazing Mr. Coward (Patrick Braybrooke FRSL/ Denis Archer, 1933)

[PH]

Noël Coward - a Biography (Philip Hoare/ Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995)

[RK]

Noël Coward (Robert F. Kiernan/Ungar, New York, 1986)

[SCi]

Noël & Cole - the sophisticates (Stephen Citron/Sinclair Stevenson,1992)

[SCo]

Noël Coward - a Bio-Bibliography (Stephen Cole/Greenwood

[SM1]

A Talent to Amuse [Biography] (Sheridan Morley/Little, Brown & Press, 1993) Co, Boston, 1985)

[VE]

Sir Noël - the Man and his Music (Vivian Ellis/ 'Performing Right'No.60, October 1973) (Performing Right Society Ltd.)

SIGNIFICANT OTHERS - not specifically about Coward

[BL]

Every Other Inch a Lady (autobiography) (Beatrice Lillee with John Philip, written with James Brough / W.H.Allen, 1973)

[BN1]

All I Could Never Be (Beverley Nichols/Jonathan Cape,1949)

[BN2]

The Sweet and Twenties (Beverley Nichols/ Weidenfeld and Nicolson,1958)

[CBC]

Cock-A-Doodle-Do (Charles B. Cochran/J.M.Dent, London,1941)

[EL]

Boo, to My Friends (Evelyn Laye/Hurst & Blackett,London, 1958)

[FMC]

Orchestration for the Theatre (Francis M. Collinson/ John Lane The Bodley Head, 1941)

[GL]

A Star Danced (Gertrude Lawrence/W.H. Allen, 1945)

[JA]

Wandering Abroad (Jeffrey Amherst / Secker & Warburg, 1976)

[JD]

Les Folies du Music-Hall (Jacques Damase / Editions 'Spectacles', Paris, 1960; trans. 1962 Anthony Blond Ltd., with foreword by Noël Coward)

[JG]

Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (Autoiography)(Macmillan, London, 1976)

[JH1]

The Little Woman's Always Right (Jack Hulbert / W.H.Allen, 1975)

[JH2]

Cochran (James Harding/ Methuen, 1988)

[JM]

Over My Shoulder (Jessie Matthews / W.H. Allen, 1974)

[ME]

Those Dancing Years (Mary Ellis / John Murray, 1982)

[MG]

Laughing Through Life (Maisie Gay / Hurst & Blackett,1931)

[MM]

My Heart Belongs (Mary Martin / W.H.Allen, 1977)

[NH]

And the Next Object (Norman Hackforth / Angus & Robertson, 1975)

[PK]

The Time of My Life (Pat Kirkwood/Robert Hale Ltd. 1999)

[PN]

Ivor Novello - Man of the Theatre (Peter Noble, with foreword by Noël Coward/Falcon Press, 1951)

[RH]

Binkie Beaumont - Eminence Grise of the West End Theatre(Richard Huggett/Hodder & Stoughton,1989)

[RR]

Musical Stages (autobiography) (Richard Rodgers /W.H.Allen, London, 1976)

[SH]

'Cockie' (Sam Heppner / Leslie Frewin, 1969)

[SM2]

Gertrude Lawrence (Sheridan Morley / Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981)

Other Works Consulted (no specific references made)

The British Musical Theatre[Vol.II] (Kurt Ganzl/MacMillan, 1986)

The Complete Entertainment Discography (1897-1942) (2nd Edn) (Brian Rust/Da Capo Press, New York, 1989)

Directory of Popular Music 1900-1965 (LeslieLowe/Peterson,1975)

The Gay Twenties (J.C.Trewin/Mander and Mitchenson, with foreword by Noël Coward/Macdonald, 1958)

Ivor Novello (James Harding/W.H.Allen, 1987)

London Musical Shows on Record (R.Seeley & R.Bunnett/ General Gramophone Publications Ltd., 1989)

Musical Comedy (Mander and Mitchenson, with foreword by Noël Coward/Peter Davies, 1969)
Operetta (Richard Taubner/Victor Gollancz, 1984)

Popular Music of the Twenties (Ronald Pearsall/ Rowman & Littlefield, N.J., 1976)

Review of Revues (Ed. C.B.Cochran/ Jonathan Cape, 1930)

Revue (Mander and Mitchenson, with forword by Noël Coward/PeterDavies, 1971)

The Turbulent Thirties (J.C.Trewin/Mander and Mitchenson/ Macdonald, 1960)