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...IVOR NOVELLO (306 pp.)-Peter Noble -British Book Centre...
While most of his contemporaries were still thinking of themselves as bundles dropped by a passing stork, little Ivor Novello had already and all by himself imagined, in this glamorous parthenogene-sis-in-Technicolor, his first theatrical production...
...later years, right up until his death last March, Novello produced box after box of fluffy entertainment for the British public-and there in the middle of almost every show was Ivor. He was not only Britain's Ziegfeld but also Britain's Valentino, and for a while her Jack Barrymore too; added to which he was one of the most successful song writers of his day, and a maker of light comedies second only to Noel Coward...
Most of the men & women in Novelist Mathew's planeload are in Africa for uninspiring reasons, e.g., failure at home, husbands stationed there. The exception is young Navigator Ivor McKenna, a Catholic, and the spirit that makes him different gives the author his message: "[After confession] he felt a strange lightness and ease, a spring of gratitude, thankfulness to God. . . In a moment he was flooded by a sense of God's mercy. . . At a level beyond personal likings, a deep unity of spirit bound together all those who accepted and were molded by the Catholic Faith...
Thanks to Ivor Brown who rescued the word "niffle," and thanks to Mrs. Millard V. Barton of Austin, Texas, who gladly seized the word as a ladylike name for Mr. Truman, and thanks to TIME (April 30, May 14) for publishing both wonderful events...