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Linda Perry to Receive Ivor Novello Awards’ Prestigious Songwriting Prize
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I'm posting this here as well as on my usual blob.cat instance, since that one doesn't federate as widely, so I apologise to those who may see it twice.
On 6 March, 1951, the world lost a genius and a truly amazing man. Known mostly for the lovely, romantic music in his operettas such as Glamorous Night, The Dancing Years, Perchance to Dream, and King's Rhapsody, among others, he also wrote one of the most famous songs of World War I (Keep the Home Fires Burning), at least one review (Theodore and Co.), and starred in several silent films and talkies. A man of many talents, Ivor Novello worked with a range of wonderful singers, as well as the librettist, Christopher Hassall, who brought his music to life. Below, I have provided some links for you to enjoy. As a side note, for those looking for gay role models, you should definitely research him. While it was illegal to be openly homosexual during his lifetime, he had a relationship that lasted for thirty-five years!This is the Wikipedia entry for Ivor Novello.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Nov…
Since I mentioned him, and since he was such an integral part of Novello's work, here is the entry for Christopher Hassall. It's worth noting that there are several Youtube videos of him reading both his own poetry and the works of others.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christop…
Incredibly, a mere two days after Novelllo's death, those who knew him best created an extraordinary tribute to him. It contains live performances, not only of songs, but of a few scenes from his earlier works and famous operettas, providing an invaluable window into the excellent vocal and acting styles of the time.
IVOR NOVELLO-Man of the Theatre- 8th March 1951
youtube.com/watch?v=etB7t_ETqS…
This is a play in which Novello himself starred. While he didn't normally speak this way (publically, at least) he was from Wales, so this is probably the accent he heard while growing up. This was later turnd into the full-length work entitled Valley of song, and was completed by Christopher Hassall upon Novello's death.
Choir Practice, by Cliff Gordon (BBC, 1946)
youtube.com/watch?v=UsM8_TW0pt…
Here he is narrating a few scenes from King's Rhapsody. This is extremely interesting, because no one else is acting. I'm not quite sure what this was meant to be. That is, a demonstration, a trailer, just the author's thoughts? Regardless, it's a wonderful treat for the ears.
Muranian Rhapsody part 1
youtube.com/watch?v=JIbrYatXPd…
Muranian Rhapsody part 2
youtube.com/watch?v=ciVi8L-KPe…
Finally, here is a wonderful series of highlights from King's Rhapsody, by the original cast!
youtube.com/watch?v=wOu-nuoi3f…
There are several other videos of Novello's work on Youtube, including full films (both silent and talking), individual songs, and a full tribute concert from 1979. But this should serve as a decent introduction.
#composer #gay #operetta #IvorNovello #music #radio #theater #theatre #tribute
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Today is the 132nd anniversary of the birth of Ivor Novello, a true man of the theatre. From non-musical plays such as the Truth Game, to silent films such as The Lodger (later remade with sound), to talkies such as I Lived with You, to the wonderfl operettas for which he is so well-known, such as the Dancing Years, he demonstrated extreme versitility, creativity, and genius. His ability to bring characters to life with exacting detail, often in glamorous settings, and to choose just the right actors to play them, was legendary. While he died at only fifty-eight, he left us with intriguing worlds to explore, many lovely songs to sing, and a true appreciation of greatness. May we remember him today and always keep a song and hope in our hearts.
Note: Many of his films, both silent and with sound, several of his songs by the original artists, and a few tributes and documentaries, some again with those who knew him, can be found on Youtube. Others can be purchased on Amazon..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Nov…
#acting #actors #birthday #geniuses #IvorNovello #musicals #music #operettas #plays #producers #theater #theatre
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Today is the 132nd anniversary of the birth of Ivor Novello, a true man of the theatre. From non-musical plays such as the Truth Game, to silent films such as The Lodger (later remade with sound), to talkies such as I Lived with You, to the wonderfl operettas for which he is so well-known, such as the Dancing Years, he demonstrated extreme versitility, creativity, and genius. His ability to bring characters to life with exacting detail, often in glamorous settings, and to choose just the right actors to play them, was legendary. While he died at only fifty-eight, he left us with intriguing worlds to explore, many lovely songs to sing, and a true appreciation of greatness. May we remember him today and always keep a song and hope in our hearts.
Note: Many of his films, both silent and with sound, several of his songs by the original artists, and a few tributes and documentaries, some again with those who knew him, can be found on Youtube. Others can be purchased on Amazon..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Nov…
#acting #actors #birthday #geniuses #IvorNovello #musicals #music #operettas #plays #producers #theater #theatre
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Today is the 132nd anniversary of the birth of Ivor Novello, a true man of the theatre. From non-musical plays such as the Truth Game, to silent films such as The Lodger (later remade with sound), to talkies such as I Lived with You, to the wonderfl operettas for which he is so well-known, such as the Dancing Years, he demonstrated extreme versitility, creativity, and genius. His ability to bring characters to life with exacting detail, often in glamorous settings, and to choose just the right actors to play them, was legendary. While he died at only fifty-eight, he left us with intriguing worlds to explore, many lovely songs to sing, and a true appreciation of greatness. May we remember him today and always keep a song and hope in our hearts.
Note: Many of his films, both silent and with sound, several of his songs by the original artists, and a few tributes and documentaries, some again with those who knew him, can be found on Youtube. Others can be purchased on Amazon..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Nov…
#acting #actors #birthday #geniuses #IvorNovello #musicals #music #operettas #plays #producers #theater #theatre
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Today is the 132nd anniversary of the birth of Ivor Novello, a true man of the theatre. From non-musical plays such as the Truth Game, to silent films such as The Lodger (later remade with sound), to talkies such as I Lived with You, to the wonderfl operettas for which he is so well-known, such as the Dancing Years, he demonstrated extreme versitility, creativity, and genius. His ability to bring characters to life with exacting detail, often in glamorous settings, and to choose just the right actors to play them, was legendary. While he died at only fifty-eight, he left us with intriguing worlds to explore, many lovely songs to sing, and a true appreciation of greatness. May we remember him today and always keep a song and hope in our hearts.
Note: Many of his films, both silent and with sound, several of his songs by the original artists, and a few tributes and documentaries, some again with those who knew him, can be found on Youtube. Others can be purchased on Amazon..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Nov…
#acting #actors #birthday #geniuses #IvorNovello #musicals #music #operettas #plays #producers #theater #theatre
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Today is the 132nd anniversary of the birth of Ivor Novello, a true man of the theatre. From non-musical plays such as the Truth Game, to silent films such as The Lodger (later remade with sound), to talkies such as I Lived with You, to the wonderfl operettas for which he is so well-known, such as the Dancing Years, he demonstrated extreme versitility, creativity, and genius. His ability to bring characters to life with exacting detail, often in glamorous settings, and to choose just the right actors to play them, was legendary. While he died at only fifty-eight, he left us with intriguing worlds to explore, many lovely songs to sing, and a true appreciation of greatness. May we remember him today and always keep a song and hope in our hearts.
Note: Many of his films, both silent and with sound, several of his songs by the original artists, and a few tributes and documentaries, some again with those who knew him, can be found on Youtube. Others can be purchased on Amazon..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Nov…
#acting #actors #birthday #geniuses #IvorNovello #musicals #music #operettas #plays #producers #theater #theatre
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His real name was David Ivor Davies, and he was born in Cardiff. His father was a tax collector and his mother was a famous singing teacher called Dame Clara Novello Davies.
10 things you might not know about Ivor Novello:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/01/15-january-ivor-novello.html
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Oh, that was absolutely fantastic! What an amazing performance! It's the first time I saw a truly professional version of an Ivor Novello work, aside from the mess that was the Glamorous Night film, whose only saving graces were Mary Ellis and Trefor Jones. While I loved Perchance to dream and King's Rhapsody, both were amateur productions. This was how his works were meant to be seen and heard! And the woman who played Maria equalled Mary Ellis in her singing abilities,, including the amazing portemento and high notes! And Olive Gilbert not only sang but spoke as well! Dunstand Hart just sang, but judging by the script, that was probably how the original play was written, too. Overall, I would highly recommdns this not just to fans of Ivor Novello but to anyone who wants to see a romantic story with beautiful music, sung properly!
amazon.com/dp/B00T87VXJS
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What is the best gift to give to your friends for Christmas? Well, if you're Ivor Novello, apparently, it's a professionally-recorded meddly of your music, with a Christmas greeting written out! Can you imagine recieving something this beautiful from a friend? Most of these people worked with him as well, so it was probably both friends and colleagues who received it, and, I'm willing to bet, his own mother.
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Valley of Song was every bit as wonderful as I thought it would be. It's the first time, though, that I ever saw a Novello play without any of his own songs. Christopher Hassall did such a good job finishing it that I couldn't tell where one man's work ended and the other's began. What really touched my heart, though, is that this took place in Wales, where Ivor was born. More so, was that some of the songs I know as a fact were sung by the Royal Welsh Ladies Choir, and probably by the Novello Davis Choir, both of which were conducted by his mother. It is the closest I will ever come to hearing them, other than one recording I have under another conductor. I almost cried when they sang Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night), which I know they sung and even recorded in 1915 (I don't have it). And of course, there was a beautiful love story, too, as always.
#ChristopherHassall #ClaraNovelloDavis #IvorNovello #ValleyofSong
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(Everything I have, except Glamorous Night, and The Dancing Years, can be found on Youtube.)
Tomorrow is my birthday, so I've decided to treat myself to an Ivor Novello film. I must be very careful with these, as he only made a few. I'm not counting the silent ones, since I'm blind and obviously can't watch them. I've already seen, and loved, I Lived with You. I'm missing Symphony in Two Flats, But the Flesh is Weak (wrote but not in), and The Truth Game (wrote but not in). But I still have Once A Lady, The Lodger, Sleeping Car, and Autumn Crocus. Which one should I watch?As for his plays, they are ridiculously difficult to find with full dialogue. If you know of any, please let me know! I managed to locate Perchance to Dream, and King's Rhapsody, both amateur but wonderful. King's Rhapsody was actually performed by the Knowle Operatic Society in 1981. How they managed to capture that in sound I have no idea, since I can't imagine it was a professional recording. Maybe, they used Super8mm. I believe some of those cameras had sound. Anyway, I also watched the film version of Glamorous Night, whose only saving grace was Mary Ellis, and I'm waiting on the 1950 version of The Dancing Years, with none other than Olive Gilbert! Finding anything with her speaking in it is almost a miracle. If anyone knows where I can find a film called Ivor Novello, from 1956 or so, please let me know. Many of his people are in it, and I would absolutely love to see it, particularly for that reason! I also have a delightful version of Valley of Song, recorded in 1955! This is a special and poignant, as the play was left unfinished at Novello's death and was completed by his librettist, Christopher Hassall, the one man I think should have done it, since he, more than anyone, knew Novello's style and thought process in such matters. A museum actually uploaded it from an audiocassette, but this is not a radio performance. It appears to be the film, which made me laugh, since now, the sighted get to experience how I see films without audio description! But it's really not fair to laugh when the ones suffering are my peers who fight like hell to get anything from/by Novello! It would be amazing, though, to have what does exist audio-described. I think, though, that I will listen to Valley of Song tonight. I am very curious about it. I'll save tomorrow for the film.
#audiodescription #blind #cinema #films #IvorNovello #MaryEllis #OliveGilbert #plays #talkies #theatre
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Hello. I joined Friendica in October of 2024, after Facebook closed their Basic Mobile site (not app). I live in New Jersey and am forty-one years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, British history, and the Regency. I like coffee, tea, wine, nasal snuff, cooking, hot baths, reading British literature, watching nature and historical documentaries, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I also love cats. In classical music, I enjoy Baroque through a bit of early Romantic, while in popular, I usually prefer 1950's through 1970's. I love theatre (especially English and Viennese operettas, Edwardian musical comedies), and some Regency/Georgian plays. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. It's my dream to either buy a genuine Edwardian suit or have one commissioned. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. My parents are lesbians, and I am a huge gay rights supporter, but I stop short of using singular they and promoting the idea of more than two sexes, though you can certainly lean more towards one while being the other (as I do being a masculine woman), or change from one to the other via hormones, surgery etc. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity.I am happily childfree and am not religious. I hardly ever write about politics. I tend to get along better with people older than I, but I will accept friends twenty-one and over. I have no understanding of chronic illness, anxiety, depression, loneliness, etc. I enjoy hearing about cats, cooking or gardening adventures, antiques, and interesting life stories.
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Hello. I joined Friendica in October of 2024, after Facebook closed their Basic Mobile site (not app). I live in New Jersey and am forty-one years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, British history, and the Regency. I like coffee, tea, wine, nasal snuff, cooking, hot baths, reading British literature, watching nature and historical documentaries, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I also love cats. In classical music, I enjoy Baroque through a bit of early Romantic, while in popular, I usually prefer 1950's through 1970's. I love theatre (especially English and Viennese operettas, Edwardian musical comedies), and some Regency/Georgian plays. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. It's my dream to either buy a genuine Edwardian suit or have one commissioned. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. My parents are lesbians, and I am a huge gay rights supporter, but I stop short of using singular they and promoting the idea of more than two sexes, though you can certainly lean more towards one while being the other (as I do being a masculine woman), or change from one to the other via hormones, surgery etc. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity.I am happily childfree and am not religious. I hardly ever write about politics. I tend to get along better with people older than I, but I will accept friends twenty-one and over. I have no understanding of chronic illness, anxiety, depression, loneliness, etc. I enjoy hearing about cats, cooking or gardening adventures, antiques, and interesting life stories.
This is my journal. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.
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Hello. I joined Friendica in October of 2024, after Facebook closed their Basic Mobile site (not app). I live in New Jersey and am forty-one years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, British history, and the Regency. I like coffee, tea, wine, nasal snuff, cooking, hot baths, reading British literature, watching nature and historical documentaries, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I also love cats. In classical music, I enjoy Baroque through a bit of early Romantic, while in popular, I usually prefer 1950's through 1970's. I love theatre (especially English and Viennese operettas, Edwardian musical comedies), and some Regency/Georgian plays. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. It's my dream to either buy a genuine Edwardian suit or have one commissioned. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. My parents are lesbians, and I am a huge gay rights supporter, but I stop short of using singular they and promoting the idea of more than two sexes, though you can certainly lean more towards one while being the other (as I do being a masculine woman), or change from one to the other via hormones, surgery etc. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity.I am happily childfree and am not religious. I hardly ever write about politics. I tend to get along better with people older than I, but I will accept friends twenty-one and over. I have no understanding of chronic illness, anxiety, depression, loneliness, etc. I enjoy hearing about cats, cooking or gardening adventures, antiques, and interesting life stories.
This is my journal. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.
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Hello. I joined Friendica in October of 2024, after Facebook closed their Basic Mobile site (not app). I live in New Jersey and am forty-one years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, British history, and the Regency. I like coffee, tea, wine, nasal snuff, cooking, hot baths, reading British literature, watching nature and historical documentaries, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I also love cats. In classical music, I enjoy Baroque through a bit of early Romantic, while in popular, I usually prefer 1950's through 1970's. I love theatre (especially English and Viennese operettas, Edwardian musical comedies), and some Regency/Georgian plays. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. It's my dream to either buy a genuine Edwardian suit or have one commissioned. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. My parents are lesbians, and I am a huge gay rights supporter, but I stop short of using singular they and promoting the idea of more than two sexes, though you can certainly lean more towards one while being the other (as I do being a masculine woman), or change from one to the other via hormones, surgery etc. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity.I am happily childfree and am not religious. I hardly ever write about politics. I tend to get along better with people older than I, but I will accept friends twenty-one and over. I have no understanding of chronic illness, anxiety, depression, loneliness, etc. I enjoy hearing about cats, cooking or gardening adventures, antiques, and interesting life stories.
This is my journal. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.
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I recently read a very interesting article in the newsletter of the Ivor Novello Appreciation Bureau. It was from 2007 (they really need some new content), and the author discussed a failed concert of Novello's work, headed by George Daugherty and David Lik Wong, complete with "Sinfonia Britannia, a full orchestra (to the exact size Ivor had specified for his London shows) plus a line-up of world -famous vocalists." The reason given for the failure was a lack of press coverage, despite the phenomenal performances and work that had gone into them. But now, it's 2024! We have the Internet as nevr before. We have live streaming, and our words travel instantly! So why not try again? And if we can't do a full theatrical production, why not do what Ivor himself once did and turn one of his plays into a radio production! While it would be ideal to work in a professional studeo, it's not even necessary, since parts can be sent in and edited to form one whole. This also does away with the need for sets (which can be extremely expensive in his case), costumes, etc. We can even include actors with disabilities but fantastic voices, since no one can judge them based on looks! This would be the perfect opportunity to let them shine based on their own merrit. All of Novello's works are in the public domain now, so we wouldn't have to go through endless battles and thousands of pounds to obtain the rights to perform one. My only request, and I can't stress this enough, is that we follow his vision as closely as possible and not modernize it! That drives me to distraction! I know it will be next to impossible to find singers of the calibre of Mary Ellis, Olive Gilbert, Vanessa Lee, Trefor Jones, etc. but at least, more people will be exposed to Novello's works. Then, if they really like it, we very well could bring them to a real theatre!
ivornovello.com/newsletter.htm
#acting #actors #disabilities #plays #production #IvorNovello #singing #theater #theatre
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This is something I wrote on Dreamwidth in October. I think some of you may find it interesting. I myself am beginning to study all of this, as I am fascinated by the singing methods and knowledge of the time. It is a bit difficult doing it being blind and unable to read music, but fortunately, there are ways around that. My perfect pitch and good memory for lyrics also helps.
Below, you will find various links related to theory, harmony and counterpoint, and a comparison of older and modern methods of teaching and singing. While this relates to choirs and opera, it also relates to the theatre, particularly operettas and such.
Studying Music: Part I
dandylover1.dreamwidth.org/205…My one criterion was that the methods and books used had to be from the time of Ivor Novello, preferably from his youth (born 1893). If I were to start in the early nineteenth century, which is where most of my preferred non-musical educational material is from, I would miss extremely important developments in classical music. Starting at the birth of his mother, Clara Novello Davies, in 1861, would be fine. However, since her own book, which I am using as my main text and guide, was written in 1928, I went with that of her son. In the following sections, you will find the books I am using. One thing I have not included, though it was a huge influence in Ivor's own writing style, was theatrical music, such as that found in operettas and Edwardian musical comedies. That is such a large topic for discussion that I feel it deserves its own separate post, as does Ivor's music, since it's an interesting blend of all of the above. But this is well outside the scope of traditional musical study.
In the next entry, we will delve into vocal training and why the singers of Novello's time sound so wonderful.
Studying Music: Part II
dandylover1.dreamwidth.org/205…Finally, since I mentioned the exercises, here they are, for anyone who wants to try them. Note that these are the Preliminaries and Breathlock Physicals, not the vocal exercises. But I have provided the link to her book as well, for those who may wish to go further.
Clara's Exercises
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This week has been one Novellian discovery after another, and each better than the last!
First, I was able to add to my film list, with Once a Lady (1931. This is not the clips I found earlier, but the full film! I also have The Lodger (1932), I Lived with You (1933), Sleeping Car (1933), and Autumn Crocus (1934). Now, I'm just missing Symphony in Two Flats )1930/wrote), But The Flesh is Weak (1932/wrote but not in it). If anyone wants the links to the others,, let me know, as they're all on Youtube. I also have Glamorous Night, but he's not in it. Mary Ellis is, though. That one I bought.
Then, I found two very unusual pieces. They are both instrumental and are actually narrated by Novello himself! They come from King's Rhapsody, which I was lucky enough to have seen (also on Youtube and well worth watching), but other than a few notes at the beginning, taken from Mountain Dove, I don't recall them being there. Maybe, this was an audio special.
Muranian Rhapsody Part 1
youtube.com/watch?v=JIbrYatXPd…
Muranian Rhapsody Part 2
youtube.com/watch?v=ciVi8L-KPe…
Today, while looking for other works written/translated by Christopher Hassall, I found something that almost brought me to tears, for several reasons. It is a tribute to Ivor Novello, made by those who knew him, a mere two days after his death! Whether reporters tracked down these poor people and bothered them or whether they got together to honour their friend, boss, etc. I don't know. But it is a golden treasure, as some of these actors I'll probably never get to hear anywhere else. Others I have, either singing or in interviews, including a huge concert narrated by Vanessa Lee.
youtube.com/watch?v=etB7t_ETqS…
The other day, I found something else by Novello, though not Ivor! I had completely forgotten that his adopted sister Marie was a classical pianist! Sadly, she died quite young, and all but two of her recordings were acoustic, as they were made in the 1920's. I found thirteen of them on Youtube, all under six minutes.
I chose this one because it's one of her two electrics, and is therefore very clear.
Arensky: Etude Op36 No13
youtube.com/watch?v=5O9J5LVA6P…
This one is not only clear for being acoustic, but there is a bit of history attached. She was actually the last living student of the composer, Theodor Leschetizky. I have never heard of him, but I'm sure some of you have.
Leschetizky: Toccata
youtube.com/watch?v=SK5qHsOf_p…
#IvorNovello #MarieNovello #theatre #films #MaryEllis #OliveGilbert#ChristopherHassall
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June Tripp and Ivor Novello in “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog”
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Ivor Novello in “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog”
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927)
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