Gay's the Word " review
Jermyn Street Theatre, LondonWritten shortly before his death in 1951, Ivor Novello's last musical earns a footnote in the history books. It shows Novello abandoning Ruritanian operetta to return to the revue format of his youth, and must be one of the first public entertainments to make coded reference to the sexual meaning of "gay". Today it survives largely as a camp curiosity that makes Salad Days look positively…