Val Gielgud's Autobiography
V AL GIELGUD’S autobiography, "Years of the Locust," is coming out soon. "Until I was 28," says Mr. Gielgud, now the BBC’s D'rector of Drama, "I was simply a rolling stone, and the worst actor who ever trod the board." Then, he says, he went to the BBC in 1929’ as Drama Director and got himself a position in the entertainment world unlike that of anyone else. "T_ have tried," he says, "to balance my BBC respectability by writ:ng novels, mostly of the romantic kind, and plays. The plays have been notably unsuccessful, probably simply because they are what I should most like to have succeeded."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 401, 28 February 1947, Page 23
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109Val Gielgud's Autobiography New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 401, 28 February 1947, Page 23
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