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...swarms of eager young musicians whose war-stunted careers are blossoming out all over England cannot adequately fill the ranks of the nine symphony orchestras in London. Without including the minor ones, there are three first rate orchestras. The B.B.C., alternately under the direction of Sir Adrian Boult and Basil Cameron, is probably the best, giving regular weekly concerts and, during winter and summer seasons, nightly promenade concerts in a 10,000 seat monstrosity called the Royal Albert Hall. The London Symphony, under Malcolm Sargent, also performs once a week at the Albert; while the London Philharmonic since its fight...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Ibsen's A Doll's House, with Dorothy McGuire, Basil Rathbone...
Besides discs of Shakespeare and other masters, read by such experts as Basil Rathbone, the record section also contains the complete albums of American Folk Songs made by the Library of Congress in 1942 and edited by Alan Lomax. With Professor Smith's permission, interested students may even hear recordings of James Joyce himself, reading from "Finnegan's Wake...
Irresistible Vocation. Father Matthews' parents were school superintendents on Britain's tropical, oil-rich island of Trinidad. As a boy, young Basil often climbed the hill, eleven miles from Port of Spain, to visit the monastery of Mount St. Benedict, first West Indian outpost of the Benedictine order. Irresistibly drawn to "the splendor of the liturgical life" he found there, at 14 he was discussing his vocation with the prior...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Accent on Youth, with Jane Wyatt, Basil Rathbone...