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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...
Died. Ivor Novello (Davies), 58, Welsh-born British matinee idol, tunesmith and playwright (Careless Rapture, Perchance to Dream), best known in the U.S. fo Keep the Home Fires Burning; of a coronary thrombosis; in London...
...Novello is the author of 22 plays (of which only two have been flops). His triumphant Dancing Years is still moving blithely from province to province after a marathon run of eight years. He played his first stage role in 1921, partly because his family disapproved, and wrote his first play in 1924 with Constance Collier. His songwriting career began even earlier. During World War I his mother, a well-known English music teacher, announced her intention of composing a patriotic song. "She did," explains Novello brightly, "and it was perfectly ghastly. So I wrote one myself." It was Keep...
...Novello's life has revolved entirely around the theater. He has played in British movies as recently as 1937 and in a few early Hollywood silents. But "I loathe making films," he says. "It's entirely against nature to get up at 7 o'clock in the morning and put on evening dress...