2: Actor GRAHAM PAYN has written "My Life with Noel Coward" (Applause Books) with Barry Day. Theater legend Coward is the author of "Hay Fever," "Private Lives," and "Blithe Spirit." PAYN met him as a child, when he acted in Coward's "Words and Music" in 1932. The two were friends for thirty years until Coward's death in 1973.
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