Macqueen-Pope: Miscellaneous Correspondence relating to Ivor Novello,

Approximately 50 letters, two postcards and a telegram to Macqueen-Pope regarding Ivor Novello, all from 1951. With several [68?] carbon copies of Macqueen-Pope's replies and some other correspondence. The letters are from: Howard Barnes; A. Beasley [Dodie]; W. H. Berry; E. A. Briggs; Clem Butson; George Butt, Michele Cains; Rev. Meredith Davies; Stanley C. Dorrill; Gordon Dutson; R. W. Fenn; Frances Foster; Winifred Galpin; R. P. M. Gibbs (Daily Telegraph); L. H. Green; Hugh Hamilton-McGoverne; Carl Hayes; Pearl Hudson; Anne Hyde; Carl Jaffé; Humphrey Joel (four letters); Phyllis Kaye; Keystone Press Agency; Marjorie Killick (two letters with a photographic collage by her in memory of Ivor Novello); Edwina M. King (on behalf of 'Miss Lily Elsie'); Fred Lermitte; David Lewin; Doreen D. Light (eleven-page letter regarding her story about 'Dracula'); J. C. McKenzie, Editor, Sunday Chronicle; R. B. Marriott; Mary [Martin]; Arthur Llewellyn Matthison; Edith Miles; Miss Nodes; Diana Parry; Stanley J. Passmore, Secretary, King George's Pension Fund for Actors and Actresses; Norman G. Phelps; Roger Pitt; J. B. Platnauer; Stella Pope; Philip Ridgeway; John Shand; Clement P. Smallwood, Deputy Editor, Birmingham Mail; M. Scorse; The Stage magazine; Cora S[?]; Ruby [?].
Topics include: Ivor Novello's death; Macqueen-Pope's biography; requests from correspondents for information, photographs and so on; replies to requests for information from Macqueen-Pope.
Carl Hayes writes, on learning of Ivor’s death, that he 'played several intimate scenes with him when he came to the D. W. Griffith Studios in Marmaroneck, Long Island, U.S.A. in the early 1920's. He was the Clergyman in "The White Rose" I think it was called. He was certainly a charming man to work with.'
Hugh Hamilton-McGoverne writes of Ivor Novello: 'He, also, awoke in everyone - even those who did not know him - a desire to comfort him and a feeling that, if they could only know him better, they might be the one that could help him find that happiness for which he yearned. I had known both Ivor and Isabel Jeans since "The Rat" days - and they were the 2 stars of the Theatre, that I worshiped. I have just returned from Czechoslovakia - owing to Communist pressure - there my work was very famous [...] P.S. "May" was very much liked by H. M. The Queen, Maxfield, Clifford Bax, Gielgud, Olivier, the Times, etc. etc. - when you have read the book, let me know how you like it - and if it does not remind you of Ivor'.

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