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...Peter Pastmaster; Sir Alastair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington and Viola Chasm. This glittering, blandly selfish, pretentiously stupid upper-class riffraff was to romp through most of Waugh's later books, sharing their futile power for pointless and appalling mischief with such later creations as raffish, rascally Basil Seal, motorbiking Father Rothschild (a member of a younger branch of the banking family, who had become a Jesuit priest), and the American evangelist, Mrs. Melrose Ape. With her cotton-winged angels (Chastity, Divine Discontent, et al.), Mrs. Ape wowed high society by singing her inspirational hymn: There ain't no flies...
Cavalcade of America (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). The Common Glory, with Basil Rathbone...
...except a good Hamlet; few have that. This one, in every piece of casting, in every performance, is about as nearly solid as gold can be. It is hard to imagine better work, along traditional lines, than that of Felix Aylmer, snuffling and badgering about as Polonius; or of Basil Sydney (who once played a memorable Hamlet, in modern dress) as the corrupt, tormented usurper; or of Norman Wooland as a gentle, modest, steadfast and wise Horatio. Stanley Holloway, as the Gravedigger, is blessedly out-of-tradition;* he seemed to have learned his lines from the earth itself, not from...
...Died. Basil Harris, 58, board chairman of the U.S. Lines; of cancer; in Manhattan. He became a partner (with the late Kermit Roosevelt) in the Roosevelt Steamship Co. in 1923, joined the U.S. Lines as vice president in 1931, served in 1939-40 as Commissioner of Customs and assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...
Tonight on Broadway (Tues. 7 p.m., CBS Television). Excerpts from The Heiress, with Wendy Hiller and Basil Rathbone...