South Wales Echo (06/Sep/2007) - Display to give first look at Ivor tribute
(c) South Wales Echo (06/Sep/2007)
- keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Downhill (1927), Ivor Novello, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Display to give first look at Ivor tribute
This is the first glimpse of how the statue of Welsh Hollywood legend Ivor Novello planned for Cardiff Bay will look. A limited number of prints of the soon-to-be-cast sculpture by Peter Nicholas go on public display at the Washington Gallery, Penarth, at 6pm tomorrow night. Fundraisers are hoping the pounds 180 prints will help them raise the pounds 85,000 cost of the 12-ft tall bronze, which will be sited in the public space in front of the Wales Millennium Centre.
"We're nearly halfway to reaching our target of pounds 85,000 to complete the sculpture," said Hilary David, who started the appeal.
At the moment, the only reminder of the 1920s' film idol in his home city, is a small plaque at the side of the house where he grew up in Cowbridge Road East, Canton.
Novello first earned fame by composing the song Keep the Home Fires Burning during World War I.
After the war, he began a film career, appeared on the West End stage and went on to star in two early Alfred Hitchcock films "The Lodger" (1927) and "Downhill" (1927). A solo show by 27-year-old Cardiff-born painter Dan Llywelyn Hall also starts tomorrow at the Washington gallery on Stanwell Road, Penarth.
