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...Piano Sonatas, played with unbeatable fire and insight by the late great Artur Schnabel. London completed its own releases of the same series by 70-year-old Wilhelm Backhaus, as well as all seven Symphonies by British Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. Columbia packaged most of the Orchestral Music of Brahms (four records), lovingly played by the Philharmonic-Symphony under Bruno Walter, and all the Beethoven Cello Sonatas (three records), masterfully played by Pablo Casals and Pianist Rudolf Serkin...
...audience of 3,000 found it hard to believe that The Great Grock would ever give up the limelight and the sawdust, but the fact was that at 74, Europe's greatest clown was tired. As Adrian Wettach, the son of a Swiss watchmaker, he ran away from home at 14 to try his luck in greasepaint. For 60 years he played in circuses and music halls across the length and breadth of Europe and England. On a continent where clowns are universally rated as the top act in any circus, Grock was acclaimed as the greatest of them...
...Died. Adrian D. (for Dwight) Joyce, 81, chairman of the board of the far-flung Glidden Co.; of a heart ailment; in Cleveland. Resourceful Tycoon Joyce bought the Glidden Varnish Co. in 1917, turned waste materials into byproducts and byproducts into big business; in 37 years he built Glidden from a $2,500,000-a-year company to one nearly 100 times that size, ranging the market from powdered copper to charcoal, from soybeans to sandwich spreads...
Hollywood Bowl Concert (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). With Guest Conductor Sir Adrian Boult and Soloists Eleanor Steber and Jan Peerce...
...Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. New yarns lovingly constructed by a pair of contemporary Sherlock fans from "unsolved cases" mentioned in the original stories (TIME, April...