Status Updates From Noel Coward: A Biography

'Design for Living' and the fabulous Lunts.

Noel did not charm everyone, however: Gladys Cooper accused him of overweening conceit when he compared himself to Shaw and Maugham. That was like comparing herself to Bernhardt or Duse, she said; to which Noel riposted that 'the difference was not quite as fantastic as that.'