Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw From: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Noel Coward joke Message-ID: <235@ptsfc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 14:52:25 EST Article-I.D.: ptsfc.235 Posted: Wed Dec 12 14:52:25 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 06:35:14 EST References: <421@digi-g.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 22 > Noel Coward was talking to Jean Harlow at a Hollywood party, > where she invariably pronounced his name NoEL (like the Christmas greeting). > He would correct her each time, but to no avail. Finally, after he could > stand it no longer, he told her, "Jean, the 'e' in Noel is as silent as > the 't' in Harlow." That's not the *true* story I heard. My version has it that a certain Margot Asquith, daughter (?) of the British Prime Minister (whose first name has momentarily escaped me) was conversing with Ms Harlow at a Hollywood Party (maybe the same one :-)). Tiring of Ms Harlow's misuse of her name as 'Margaret', and appalled at the temerity of someone so *common* (and an ACTRESS too :-o) in using her first name at all, the formidable Ms A. put on her iciest glare and announced: "My name is pronounced Margoh - the 't' is as silent as the one in Harlow". Must have been quite a party. I wonder if it was at the same one that Tallulah Bankhead told Bette Davis to si... -- Rod Williams dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw