Word: bbc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy. Next summer he plans a tour of South America. By that time, if he decided to settle down, he could be sure of some offers. One job Kubelik admirers in Britain would like to see him take: that of resident conductor of the BBC Symphony, replacing retiring Director Sir Adrian Boult...
...little, brown-eyed, onetime parlormaid was making Englishmen sit up & take notice last week. The BBC had broadcast the story of her remarkable life as a missionary in China, and she was drawing crowds to churches every afternoon and evening in Swansea, Wales. Wearing her Chinese clothes, Gladys Aylward lectures for no pay, but she speaks to people as often as she can. Says she: "There will be more people praying...
Paxton's chauffeurs managed, with wire and rope, to get the jeep to a mud-hut village. There the local garrison commander, who had taught himself English in order to listen to BBC broadcasts and read the Reader's Digest, put his men to work and all but rebuilt the jeep overnight...
...Manhattan, thousands packed the Metropolitan Opera House to hear his foremost living interpreter and Polish compatriot, Artur Rubinstein, play Chopin's incomparable mazurkas, polonaises, preludes, nocturnes and waltzes in a commemorative concert. In Paris, Pianist Alexander Brailowsky prepared for a similar recital at the Sorbonne. In London, BBC had Pianist Claudio Arrau in an all-Chopin program and Albert Hall had Robert Casadesus. In Chopin's native Warsaw, the great Chopin international piano competition was just winding up, and a new complete edition of Chopin's works, edited by Ignace Paderewski before his death, was coming...
...midst of its own austerity program. Up for sale this week at public auction will go his studios at Shepherd's Bush and Islington. Rank, who could use the money, hopes that they will be knocked down for not less than ?250,000, possibly to BBC's television division. (The studios are too antiquated to interest U.S. moviemakers in England.) Of the four studios which will be left to Rank, two are shut tight and two are operating at only half their capacity. Last week, Rank and his subsidiaries had just four productions before the cameras, compared with...