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SYMPHONY IN Two FLATS?Ivor Novello in a play of his own making. Two shows for the price of one (TIME, Sept...
Symphony In Two Flats. No one qualifies for the title of British Matinee Idol better than handsome, dark-maned Ivor Novello (Davies), songwriter, theatrical manager, playwright, actor, cinemactor. A graduate of Magdalen (pronounced "maudlin") College, Oxford, he published his first ballad when 15. When he was 21 the War broke out. Mr. Novello signalized the event by composing the big-selling ballad, "Keep The Home Fires Burning...
...Floor Above" live David Kennard (Ivor Novello) & wife (Benita Hume). Their story: While working on a symphony, David goes blind. His wife's suitor subsidizes the family, allows David to believe that his symphony has won a $10,000 competition. David finds out the truth, imagines that his wife is unfaithful, dismisses her. When she returns he will not allow her to sacrifice herself for him, pretends that he has regained his sight. The deception is unsuccessful, however, and Mr. & Mrs. Kennard are last seen at the piano, where he is playing her a little love ditty...
Oliver Elton, professor emeritus at the University of Liverpool will serve as visiting lecturer on English for the present academic year. Elton, who taught at Harvard from February to June, 1926, has chosen as his subject 'Poetics and Literary Criticism". Ivor Armstrong Richards, Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, England, and visiting lecturer on English for the second half year, served in the same capacity at Tsing Hua University, Pekin...
...plot goes, thin fare, but Mr. Drinkwater has thickened it with some highly diverting comedy so smoothly played that it does not seem extraneous. The entire cast has been brought from London, where the play has run a year, and is considerably more than adequate. Ivor Barnard and Herbert Lomas are particularly skilful; Jill Esmond Moore, particularly decorative...