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102 Picture Show Annual Playwright, Composer am Actor IVOR NoVELLO is a young man whose great genius has been burning steadily ever since he was a boy. He was born into a musical family, and has carried on the tradition nobly. Since his first great success, ' Keep the Home Fires Burning," he has written many musical numbers for comedies and revues. He has also become one of the most popular actors of the day, his combined popularity on stage and screen being unrivalled. The sequels to " The Rat " proved the great success of this character, perhaps his best known one, but " A Symphony in Two Flats " is surely his greatest personal triumph so far. Bon- The The /VOR NOVELLO: Bom in Cardiff on January 15th. 1895. Real name, David Ivor Davies, but has legally adopted the one by which he is now known. Made his film debut in "The Call of the Blood," and then appeared in a French film " Miarka," with Madame Rejane. Later went to America to appear in the D.W. Griffith production, " The White Rose." His British films are : " Carnival," " The Bohemian Girl," " The Man Without Desire," me Prince Charl le. Rat," " The Lodger," Triumph of the Rat," " Down- hill," " The Vortex," " The Constant Nymph," " The Gallant Hussar," " A South Sea Bubble," " The Return of the Rat," and " A Sym- phony in Two Rats." It is his own play, his own music, and, as the blind composer round whom the plot centres, he starred on the stage in London, during its provincial run, and its tour in America, as well as in the talkie version of it. During the London run of the stage play he had a piano in his dressing-room, and, between acts, composed much of the music for a new revue. Ivor Novello is musical to his finger tips. His Lewis Dodd in " The Constant Nymph " will always be remembered ; it was simply a matter of being natural, for he is himself a temperamental genius with the kindest heart in the world.