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GAY TWIST ON NOEL COWARD'S BRIEF ENUNTER
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I uld sense his nervons rellg a time when gay men had to watch their backs.
Coward, like his fellow gay theatril superstar Ivor Novello, lived fear of Osr Wil’s fate.