Great Regulars: [Noël Coward] wrote plays.

He composed songs and musicals. He was an esteemed stage actor in London and New York, and a film actor for big-budget Hollywood movies. He published story collections and light verse and serious poetry and memoirs and a novel. He did a Vegas stint as a cabaret artist. He wrote and directed television specials. Yet he disdained the role of dilettante, always testing himself against the rigors of the marketplace.

from Brad Leithauser: The New York Times: Brio and Bons Mots

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