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Seldom have characters leaped as brilliantly from the printed page to TV life. Basil Rathbone hammed magnificently as the fiendish Duke ("We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked"). Roberta Peters as the imprisoned Princess was so appealing visually and vocally that it was hard to believe she had raced to the TV studio straight from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, where she had sung the young shepherd role that evening in Tannhäuser. Baritone John . Raitt confidently managed the always difficult job of making a masculine hero of Prince Charming, and top honors in the superb...
Motorola TV Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). James Thurber's The Thirteen Clocks, with Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Rathbone, Roberta Peters...
Under plans announced this week by Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Dr. Salk will widen his testing program in western Pennsylvania to cover more than 5,000 children by midwinter. Then mass field trials on a nationwide basis will get under way on Feb. 8 in a county (still to be chosen) in one of the Southern states where polio strikes early and often. Thereafter, as fast as can be, inoculation teams will get to work in 200 or more counties until 500.000 to 1,000,000 children have been vaccinated. The work...
Sherlock Holmes brought Basil Rathbone to Broadway in a role he has played countless times in movies and on radio. The play was not William Gillette's famous old warhorse. but a new and curious one by Ouida (Mrs. Basil) Rathbone. However it might strike Baker Street Irregulars, for Baker Street occasionals it had none of the thrills of detective drama, only the feeblest period charm, and mere hints of Holmes's personal glamour. A dull clutter of styles and stories, it closed after three performances...
...Even if the vaccine tests are successful," said Foundation President Basil O'Connor, "this cannot be known before the end of 1954, so there will be no proven vaccine available next year." Neither will the test vaccine be available for every youngster whose worried parents want it. Test areas will be chosen for scientific reasons, and within those areas the test groups will be picked the same way. Estimated cost of the program: $7,500,000 of $26.5 million which the foundation has earmarked for polio prevention. The rest of the money will go for gamma globulin, which...