About Ivor Novello: David Ivor Davies was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.
The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.
We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.
After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.