Mad Dogs and Englishmen (song) in a heated argument as to whether 'In Bangkok at twelve o'clock they foam at the mouth and run' came at the end of the first refrain or at the end of the second. President Roosevelt held firmly to the latter view and refused to budge even under the impact of Churchillian rhetoric. In this he was right and when, a little later, I asked Mr Churchill about the incident, he admitted defeat like a man." Mad Dogs and Englishmen (song) "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" is a song written by Noël Coward and first performed in "The Third Little Show"
Romney Brent End", and as a missionary in a sketch in which he sang Coward's famous song "Mad Dogs and Englishmen". While in London, he directed a Herbert Farjeon revue and wrote the book for Cole Porter's "Nymph Errant". In 1933 Brent was cast as Paul, Duc de Chaucigny-Varennes in Coward's "Conversation Piece" but struggled with the role and was replaced by Coward himself, to whom Brent gladly handed it over, adding "providing you let me still come to rehearsals and watch you find out what a bloody awful part it is." In New York in the 1930s, Brent created the role