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Falling back upon that most cherished of British last resorts-the letter to the London Times-the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres solemnly intervened in a crisis that had united the United Kingdom in common indignation. The earl wrote in his capacity as chairman of the National Art-Collections Fund-a body founded 59 years ago expressly to protect Britain's treasures from falling into the hands of acquisitive American millionaires. Now the fund was out to protect Leonardo's exquisite drawing of the Virgin and child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist, which its owner...
...overlooked paradox: Joan Crawford (Our Dancing Daughters) was forced to change her name to a more girl-next-door appellation because her real name was too showy-Lucille Le Sueur...
Though he admits to being only a noodler himself, Simonton never lacks for live music. Famed Theater Organist Jesse Crawford-"the Poet of the Organ"-comes over to practice on the Wurlitzer three days a week. And when Simonton reels off a silent flicker in his basement Bijou, he always has on hand an oldtime organist to accompany the picture with the requisite mysteriosos and agitatos...
...rest of the program in any way noteworthy. Miss Dorothy Crawford, who has a pleasant voice, was the soloist in a secular cantata, Non sa che sia Dolore, attributed (maliciously) to J. S. Bach; the Orchestra's strings played Purcell's Fantasia on One Note with as much life as a bagpipe; and everybody fretted over the overture to Mozart's Impresario like gummed velvet...
...Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A TV biography of Broadway's Florenz Ziegfeld, with Joan Crawford narrating...