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...London, Sir Arnold Trevor Bax, 58, was appointed Master of the King's Musick, the 21st in an unbroken line since Charles II re-established the post in 1660. Famed as a poetic Neo-Celt composer, Sir Arnold has. never been obliged to earn his living, has never held any office before. His new job, the musical equivalent of Poet Laureate, has been a sinecure since Edward VII abolished State concerts...
Canada has had a price-control apparatus for two years, but only last month (TIME, Oct. 27) did it get power, and only last week did it get a Leon Henderson. To the chairmanship of the Wartime Prices & Trade Board went a dynamic, burly, black Celt, Donald Gordon...
Although it is as dramatically incoherent as life itself, How Green is a radiant idyll of the dignity and charm of honest, simple working people. Well acted by a competent, unstarred cast, the picture is a credit to Director Ford, who is himself a big, rumpled, modest Celt (Irish) with a tidy mind, rock-ribbed integrity and a talent for turning out superb pictures (The Informer, Arrowsmith, Grapes of Wrath, Stagecoach). It is also his last picture-for the present. He is now on active duty with the U.S. Navy...
Teuton or Celt, or whatever...
Rarer is the separate starring vehicle which Shaw devised for himself. This is an eight-minute prologue in which the wily, bewhiskered old Celt appears on the screen to reveal that while the rest of the democratic world has been sleeping, he has been building his own arsenal of democracy. Impudent, goading, compassionate, it is a masterful bit of acting, unsurpassed by the performances which follow. Excerpts...