A zealous figure in early English television whose plan for cinema was for its social functions to be absorbed by television. The subject matter may be repellent, but it’s a good association copy, inscribed to Peter Brook by Gavin Lambert in 1943; Brook, age 19, was making his first movie - a version of Laurence Sterne’s "A Sentimental Journey" – and in an intimate relationship with Lambert – roommate, later novelist and screenwriter, director of "Another Sky" and, according to Brook, “one of my queer Magdalen friends; a dear boy, with remarkable personal devotion, also a very Wardour Street commercial brain, a sense of publicity and much efficiency.”
