TRP hated Coward, amirite? might this be some of why?

[Mark Kohut]

Tanya Gold could write about pavement slabs and make them interesting, so
this
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 essay of hers on Noël Coward is, of course, gilded with 24-carat
brilliance.

Coward insinuated his way into aristocratic and artistic lives, first in
Britain, and then in the US, where he picked up the cadences of the future,
and brought them home. Soden has the testimony of every writer Coward
courted. He irritated Siegfried Sassoon, who had a headache, and reported
Coward “too gushing” as he “rattled brightly on”.

Aldous Huxley thought him “much nicer and more intelligent when he’s by
himself than when he’s being the brilliant young actor-dramatist in front
of a crowd of people”. Others were aghast, like the audience of “Springtime
for Hitler”: “WH Auden had sat through *The Queen Was in the Parlour* (not,
perhaps, the best introduction) in abject disbelief,” Soden writes. “Is it
like this,” Auden wrote to a friend, quoting Eliot, “in Death’s other
Kingdom?”