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...record artist was Toronto-born Glenn Gould, 23, one of the most talented young pianists to appear in years. When he gave his first U.S. concerts a year ago, critics cheered (Washington Post and Times Herald's Paul Hume: "We know of no pianist anything like him of any age"). Last week the result of Gould's recording session was out on a Columbia LP. His "Goldberg" Variations are Bach as the old master himself must have played-with delight in speeding like the wind, joy in squeezing beauty out of every phrase, and all the freshness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Arnold Bennett's The Great Adventure, with Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...followed by a whole battery of Dickensian skinflints-Alastair Sim, Reginald Owen, Alec Guinness and the late Lionel Barrymore. Christmas drama also resounds with sleigh bells, seasonal cuteness and commercialized brotherhood. A run-through of the titles suggests the content: Christmas 'Til Closing, with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn; Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid, on Alfred Hitchcock Presents; Christmas Story, on San Francisco Beat; Barbed Wire Christmas, on Calvacade Theater; A Christmas Dinner, on Kraft Theater; Silent Night, on Rheingold Theater; Santa Is No Saint, on Matinee Theater; A Kiss for Santa, on Ford Theater; Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Scrooged Again | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...characters are so many musical instruments for a rather sophisticated but monotonously scored tone poem. There is a mother (Aline MacMahon) who is pleasantly, parochially country-housish; her once-vigorous brother-in-law who is now just terribly old; her overserious, not very human son (Hume Cronyn), a civil servant who has lost out on the girl who loved him and is losing out on a career. There is the girl herself (Jessica Tandy), now a middle-aging widow who loves him no longer. Devoid of pasts or futures or both, the characters are drowning with the utmost politeness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 10, 1955 | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...Rhine and Soal are valid, says Price, they are "of enormous importance . . ." "As scientists." he asks, "what sort of evidence for ESP should we demand?" His answer: "Just one experiment that does not have to be accepted simply on a basis of faith in human honesty." His recommendation: apply Hume's precept with a controlled test before a committee of twelve prominent men, all but one hostile to parapsychology, "so that scientists . . . would be prepared to believe in psi phenomena in preference to believing that the entire committee was dishonest or deluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Challenge to Psi | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

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