Hay Fever is based on real-life soirées at the home of actress Laurette Taylor and her husband Hartley Manners, during Coward's first trip to America. The play is both a vapid comedy of post ...
It was J. Hartley Manners’ The Queen’s Messenger. There being only two parts, there were only two actors: The screen glowed pinkishly; a loud speaker in the same room susurrated A human head ...