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Peggy Ashcroft thinks of Gielgud as one of the last of the Edwardians, not just in age, but in temperament. It is not a judgment with which he will quarrel. He fondly remembers the London of his youth as a bright and magical city. "I do think with great nostalgia of the old days," he says "But I wouldn't want them back. I'd rather be taken back to a somewhat later period when I first saw my name in lights on marquee and said, 'I'm going to be star.' "
—By Gerald Clarke