Coward Plays 8 - I'll Leave it to You & The Young Idea & This was a Man

"First I was the enfant terrible. Then the Bright Young Thing. Now I'm a tradition"

I'll Leave It To You and The Young Idea, the first of Coward's plays ever to be produced, were, as he said " ... enthusiastically acclaimed by the critics and ran five weeks and eight weeks respectively. In both of them I appeared with the utmost determination"

This Was a Man, a slightly later play, was written in 1926, after the successes which made his name

It was originally banned by the Lord Chamberlain for "facetious adultery"