The Tumbrel Diaries

One thing leads to another. A Talent to Amuse , the seventieth birthday tribute to Noël Coward lately issued on CD—contains a snippet f...

To usher in the New Year, this morning I have been listening with complete fascination to A Talent to Amuse , a rare live recording of e...

I have been consulting the memoirs of the late Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, which contains among much else a lively ac...

In moments of melancholy, when, for whatever reason, the heart requires a little balm, or the spirits need lifting, I reach for my deeply un...

From their vantage point in a grandstand outside Buckingham Palace on Coronation Day (June 2, 1953) , a companion turns to Noël Coward and...

One of the great advantages of living near New York City is comparatively easy access to Broadway theater. Last Sunday I went with some fr...