SIR JOHN GIELGUD (above) has the leading role in Present Laughter, the comedy by Noel Coward which will be heard in ZB Sunday Showcase on November 10. He plays Garry Essendine, a charming and irresistible matinee idol who likes peace, quiet, and the companionship of his four friends, and his ex-wife. His peaceful existence is complicated by the pretty young girls | who insist on losing their latch-keys and -less pleasantly-by a mad young writer who haunts his flat. But the temperamental actor, who seems so harassed by his friends and admirers, secretly relishes their attentions. Liz, his. ex-wife (played by Nora Swinburne), is the only person who can cope with his idiosyncrasies. The part of Joanna Lyppiatt, his manager's lovely but predatory wife, is taken by Mary Wimbush, and Margaret Webster is heard as Essendine’s secretary, Monica Reed. The part of the persistent playwright Roland Maule is taken by Frank Duncan. The play, one of Noel Coward’s wartime successes, was adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe and produced by Peter Watts for the BBC.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 951, 1 November 1957, Page 31
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