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...composite photograph of Merle Oberon and Joan Bennett. For the third successive year, Margaret Lockwood last week shakily thanked British moviegoers for electing her Britain's most popular cinemactress. (John Mills, star of Great Expectations, was voted most popular cinemactor; Anna Neagle's The Courtneys of Curzon Street, the most popular film...
...That was time enough for Tory leaders to recognize an unimaginative "safe" man. In 1922 Prime Minister Bonar Law put Stanley Baldwin in his Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer. When Bonar Law resigned, there seemed to be no one in the Tory party to replace him except Viscount Curzon. Since Curzon was in the House of Lords (and therefore unable to face the growing Labor opposition in the House of Commons), the prime ministry went to Baldwin. "But," cried out Curzon, "[Baldwin] is a man ... of the utmost insignificance!" A Mayfair hostess asked: "Is the new Prime Minister what...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Prelude and Allegro by Couperin-Milhaud; Krenek's Symphony No. 4; Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor. Clifford Curzon at the piano, Dimitri Mitropoulos on the podium...
Britten: Introduction & Rondo alla Burlesca and Mazurka Elegiaca (Clifford Curzon and Benjamin Britten, pianists; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides); Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Benjamin Britten conducting; 6 sides). The first recordings of Britain's wonder-boy composer to reach the U.S. His two-piano music is written in a pure, archaic style reminiscent of Britain's 17th Century great, Henry Purcell, though Britten adds harmonic twists of his own. The Serenade, done in a more contemporary vein, consists of poems by Blake, Keats, Tennyson and others, set to music that is artful...
Britain's ex-Diplomat Harold Nicolson is no rookie in the wars of peacemaking. Some of his best, best-known books (Portrait of a Diplomatist; Curzon: The Last Phase) are centered around World War I's Versailles Conference, to which Nicolson was a delegate. More recently, he has been giving British radio listeners a blow-by-blow account of 1946's Paris Peace Conference. Few readers of this timely, lucid study of post-Napoleonic peacemaking will be able to resist drawing analogies between then and now-which is just what Author Nicolson warns them not to overdo...