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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...flitted through Middle Eastern oil deals. Bald, beak-nosed and now 79, Gulbenkian is such a well-known operator that oilmen refer to him simply as "G." Despite two wars and slippery international oil politics, G has managed to hang on to his 5% interest in Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd., which has brought him a fortune variously estimated at $200 to $800 million and annual royalties of some...
...squared off with the British. Three years later, charged with being a political agitator, he was tried for sedition but the case was quashed. He wrote two books: Liberia and World Politics and Renascent Africa. With his royalties he returned to Lagos, Nigeria and founded Zik's Press Ltd...
Love for Love (by William Congreve; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson in association with H. M. Tennent, Ltd.) makes up the second half of English Actor John Gielgud's "Season of comedy" on Broadway. It is not Gielgud's better half; but, after all, Gielgud's Importance of Being Earnest was far & away the most brilliant revival of the season. Earnest, moreover, is only 52 years old; Love for Love, 252. For its age, Love for Love gets around on a Broadway stage very nicely...
...chief hope of the British cinema. Most of it has been enjoyed-and most of the fine films have been made-by a small group of artists, "The Independents." There are four sets of Independents: The Archers, the Cineguild, Individual Productions, and Wessex Productions. Two Cities Films, Ltd. and occasional guest artists such as Laurence Olivier, Gabriel Pascal or Carol Reed (Odd Man Out) also do fine work...