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VOR NOVELLO had his critics and. detractors, but now they will be silent in the presence
of
himself, but It showed an honesty commendable in any, man.
He rejoined the cast of King's, Rhapsody, and the -audience acclaimed him; 88 though he had brought back sunlight and moon- light and the stars to a London still in the grip of a sodden winter.
And as so often happens In life there was a sudden,
NOVELLO
by BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP
When the evening had brought back ended and Novello, dressed from the past.
memories
In a white dinner jacket, Had Olive Gilbert sang while made his farewell and ex- she ministered to our hos-
We all our
*widespread, almost sub- preased his thanks, Lord pitality, and then
conscious realisation of Beaverbrook followed him joined according to what Ivor Novello meant in with his eyes until he had ability in the place which the life of the nation.
disappeared.
"Thero
is
The first awareness of
something this came to me personally about him," said our host, when
in Jamaica, two "that no other actor has months ago, Lord Beaver. He is like no one else." brook asked Ivor to bring his house party to dinner.
REMOTENESS
obviously Novello loved above all others, We'll Gather Lilacs in the Spring Again.
But even that night there was a detachment, remote- ness as if he were living in some other world.
His handsome face with
STAGE STAR
With Lilian Brathwaita The Truth Gime, 1928
STAR
Bat. 1929
I sensed this to some extent success" and had so urge ..
mat expand the frontiers of his own.
accomplishmÍONN Í. --
many yours ago when I him with his mother, Clora Novello Davies,
She had the 'exuberance of a
When (we asked) would give us sorte: stridency, some discord.
harsh
When. would be challenge Offenbach or oven Paccial
Beaverbrook's house was A week later Ivor gave a of a hushed sorrow in mil- on a plateau overlooking return party at his house, ita fine aristocratic features lions of hearts. It is hard the sea and Novello's house and this time the guests seemed drawn with fatigue. whirlwind or a gate at sen. Her phony of sound to add a touch
of bitter to the sweet? y was a half-mile up the road included Gladys Cooper with Yet he had been holidaying Vitality was limitiers, and she indeed to think
in the sun for nearly A
rejoiced in making people sing. her, son and daughter as other actor whose death on the same hill.
well as some guests we had month. could be felt: by so.. many
brought from Beaverbrook's
wanted choirs
In all earnestness wo urged with so great a sense of
email choirs Barge him to leave the multitude
whole stadium of behind and climb the long long" personal loss.
rond to great achievement.
His life was spent in the theatre. His death came liko the end of one of his own plots.
Only a fortnight ago ho had returned to London
Novello's party consisted of Phyllia Monkman, Beatrice Lillie, Olive GH- ber Alan Melville; and Babbie Andrews.
house.
So we all sat on the verandah on a magje moon- He was of the theatre lit night and after a time and these were his friends. Ivor went to the plans and.
YEARS THE DANCING
:
from Jamaica to find that A song gave him fame at 17
Gay's the Word had cap- tured London.
In this hilarious piece,. with touches of sentiment and pity inseparable from anything ho wrote, burlesqued his own King's Rhapsody.
ho
It was not a cruel bur- lesque, for Ivor could be cruel to no one, not even
A
SOY FIDOKTY : At.9 Novello (bom Ca
diff, Tarsawry 15, 18931 won choir scholarship to Magdalen Cotter School, Oxford AT
At 17 wrote Keep the Home, Gres Buming—and became famous AIRMAN : At 21 joined Royal Naval Air Service in 1914 war; crèished twica. ACTOR: At 28 made first stage appear. ance-on November 3, 1921, in play calted Deburau al Ambassadors Theatre PLAYWRIGHT : At 31 had his first play The Bat produced. (e) Prince of Wales, June 1924); it ran 300 nights. Alter that came The Truth Carve Party, Symphony In Two-Flais, Fresh Fletch, Lived With You, files in the Suru
AMERICAN IDOL I A1 37 took Sympnony
is
In Two Flats to New York and made big scenes. In 1938 want to Holly wood and played opposite Ruth Chat- tarton in Once a Lady.
DRURY LANE IDOL: AF 43 Nok over Drury Lane actor-manager; wrote, produced and starred in hit after TUT including Careless Rapture. Crest of
The The Wavi,
YOUTH Glamorous Night.
Daricing
PRISONER AT 51 was sentenced to a
month's Imprisonment for a patrol, retioning offence: served sentence in Wormwood Scrubs.
His: OWN AUDIENCE) On Fabrüàry 16 last, he was in the first-night audience of his musical Cay's The Word at the Sav
also for
ATOM BOMB
Today's extracts
which brieky sample the entries under somná of the “A” headings-
are direct translations. They are published without comment, but they resent a frightening song, Take, for examples....
A is for. AIRBORNE BOMBS.
HE airborne atom
bomba-ware-used.by. the Americans for the first time at the end of the second world war. The ac- tion of the atom bomb is based on the principle of exploitation
atomic of
energy.
The atom bomb in the hands of Anglo-American imperialists is a weapon of destruction, de voted to the mass extermination of peaceful population and the destruction of peaceful towns.
The atomic weapon in the hands of the US.S.R. is one of the decisive measures for the defence of peace.
The USSR., having the secret of atomic weapon (since 1947), stubbomly demands the prohibi- tion of atomic weapons and of other means of mass extermina- tion and mass destruction; this
is being bitterly opposed by the Anglo-American Imperialists.
began,
A ht for ASIA
Soviet motor works have the "best" operatives in the USSR. They have won 27 Stalin prizes, A thousand ZIS workers com- pleted their share of the Five Year Plan Inside four years in 1010.
She
Perhaps he had a pre- monition then that he had duct
choire, asked too much of his mind.
choirm. and body and that it was not only the Jamaican night that was drawing in
When we had returned from Novello's house that night Beaverbrook repeated" once more those same words: "He is like no one else."
-
A
to con-
WALKED ALONE
Although a women of ample shio wanted to proportions, girdio the world iko Puck and leave a trail of song behind her.
Ho tried with Arg Triomphe in 1948 and at last we found him giving the bruss of the orchestra something to do and not kaving it all to the strings.
In the murging, pulsing... music one could hear touches of Boheme. at Butterly, and... Rosenkavalier,, but. the music did not carry conviction. It was like patalon remembered in. tranquillity.
Arc de Triomphe did not hear. they out its name.
Ivor Novello would listen to I have told these small her talk and she would refer incidents, because they may to him for corroboration of give some guidance to a this point.
or that, but for personality that was at all their deep, affection once lovable and remote. were of two worlds.
When one looks back upon the life of this gifted mon
be that the key to his May success 13 well D3 to his character was his essential re- moteness.
EXTRACT NO. 2 FROM THE STRANGEST BOOK OF THE
YEAR
A is for ABSENTEEISM
Mass motor production was initiated by Stalin. By 1937 the Five Year Plan MASS abstention by volers bad produced more than at elections, and refusal to 200,000 vehicles. The use their right to vote, is usual US.S.R. held fourth place in bourgeois countries,
-mord
the
Sho reached for life eager, outstretched hands. always walked alone.
So he returned to the gentle. with world in which he was king, and his subjecta were grato- He ful, and strew dowers for, him,
He could create romance, ho could not command 'it for him- sell. Ho.made love the theme of everything he wrote, but there
weo no Wom in his Hic.
to walk upon, Somehow he hed found the why "to"the human heart.
HE REPLIED
Ip there any living author: or composer who has: given happiness to more Perhaps
Ivor Novello really more only lived through the charac people! Nor was he dounted.
by the shattering attacks of ters he created, and expressed the all-conquering Oklahoma, his secret longlags only in the Carousel, and Brigadoon. music that flowed from his pen.
I do not mean that he was cold or
indifferent-bis count. less kindnesses to the unfor tunates of the, theatre disprove
Everyond Bald' that British musical, was faished. Oklahoma, had been a death sentence upon it,
Novello replied to the chal that but it is a fact that in lenge with King's Rhapsody. his Ruritanina and Mittel-
I asked him “là Jamáïca. European romances hey found how long it would run With
his self-expression. Nor could out any bombast, he replied the lofty superiority of the simply: "Aa' long as I want fo | critics make him change.
keep it going
4
THE CRITICS
Such piecas as Dancing Years,"
A fortnight
80 in review. ing Novello's Gay's the Word, I asked if it was not time that he was necorded some-official recognition for having given so much happiness to so vast
I world-car-production-Absenteeism is caused the Perchance to Dream and King's a multitude.
and
manufactured Lorries
than Britain, France, or Germany.
During hostilities a new
---Open as the Automobile section. the
Urals. It
been
anti-democratic charcter of bourgeois election laws by the absence of any guarantee that Rhapsody hot only gave hap motor factory grow up in elections are carried out in a fair piness to a vast public but to
manner, by the actual impossi- himself. has since bility of the
workers to put
That night enlarged and pro- forward their own candidates By utilising religious differ- duces ZIS-8 three-ton lorries. this being the result of the played ences between Hindus Moslems, England has partially bulit in the succeeded in dividing India by a 1944. religious frontier namely India and Pakistan, which have both formally become dominions.
It does not matter now.
His memory, will be kept: fresh by the tears, of ordinary.
at Jamaica he people who loved him and his melodies from them muske,
and Two other motor factories were monopolistic situation of the with fingers that caressed the in a world grown hand with
both
Volga district in
that
43
keys.
It
he was content
with his
batted and chical with
to honour was inevitable that No- trust, we pausy
man who gave sweetness should vello
come
under the night and was not ashamed. för it: seemed toʻus Kitician, that
-London: Express: Burulce)
dis-
to
States of
reactionary bourgeois patties.
absenteeism In certain cases It is characteristic in 1943, at the height of the war, is a result of boycott organised Stalin directed that construe by democratic parties against
the elections. England's imperialisis have tion of the new high-clues 243--
their economic and 100 private car should begin... Particularly great is absentee- defended
positions in strategic
and in reality are have gone into production since the US
Four new private car models lem in the Southern
where 20 percent. of dominions
the whole still overlords of
electors abstain from the the war: the Fobebs' ("Victory") India.
50 h.p. 70 miles an hour, five- seater at Gorki, the Moskvitch (Opel) 55 miles an hour small car in Moscow; the ZIMM elegant 55 h.p. 70-75 miles an hour, six- seater in Corkt: and the 218-110 comfortable 140 h.p. 00 miles an hour, seven-seater:
THE
A is for AUTOMOBILES
of
Soviet motor factories are equipped with, the most modern machinery and аге better than foreign plants in organisation and production.
But
A is for ALTRUISM
voting.
A is for ARREST
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RRESTS carried out by the police in capitalist countries
of the measures fight democratia movements. Mass arrests are very cómmon;
are.
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and are carried out with the nim of stopping clashes, demonstra-
For example, when "ZIS TM bourgeois ethics the preach- tions and other forms of struggle
ing of altruism hypocritically of the working class. WHEN the second world war which is the abbreviation of
Arrests are followed of Zavod Iment Stalin and means camouflages the selfish sub- one-third
stance of capitalism based on the gavage beating up and tortures, Asia and balf its Stalin Auto Plant) switches exploitation of workers and on the arrested people being kept non-Russlan population were directly under from one model to another the competition...
in inhuman conditions, Time the Imperialistic power of Japan, Britain, France, the US., conveyor belt does not stop.
In a Socialist society where and again, they are kept under arrest without any definite Holland, and Portugal.
when Ford changed
charge being made against China, with the 475 million models in the US in 1847-18 dated and ton has been qui-
for four fim does not exist, true condithem. population, had no, freedom production stopped whatever and was the objective wecks each time. The first time tions for real humanitarian The constitution of the in history when a new automo ethics based on the brotherhood ÚSSA. states that nobody can of the imperialistic Powers.
bile came into production with of nations on the moral-political be put under arrest otherwise Brush-Imperialists have now out stoppage of the belt was unity of its people, on the than by an order from the court changed their form of colonial when the 245-160, a four-ton harmony of private and pubile or from the public, prosecutor.
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