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...Brown's "Band of Renown" is one of the busiest and best in the land. Les Brown, a graduate of Duke University ('36), thinks he knows why. "We prefer sound to noise," Brown writes in Metronome. "We prefer the beat over 'effects,' we prefer consonance to dissonance, and we like the melody if it's good...
Miniver mourned the ripe renown...
...study of infrared. He built the largest spectroscope in the world, and his work with diffraction gratings, which could divide the spectrum into 1,000 shades, revolutionized much of astronomy and physics research. His Physical Optics became the classic work in the field; his experiments achieved such renown that the term "Wood Experiment" became a scientist's synonym for ingenuity and perfection...
...Christmas Carol (Renown; United Artists) is a serviceable new edition of Charles Dickens' evergreen story,* arriving from Britain in time for the holiday trade. Several cuts below the best British film versions of Dickens (Great Expectations, Oliver Twist), the picture at times may tax a moviegoer's seasonal good will. Though Dickens' frank sentimentality calls for broad treatment, Brian Desmond Hurst's direction is too often heavy as well. Able Character Actor Alastair Sim is the dependable old brandy that gives this plum pudding a lift...
Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, by George Bernard Shaw (Arms and the Man, Candida, etc.) (June 18, 1898): "The fault of Shaw . . . is his lack of poetry . . . and the critic or satirist who is not a bit of a poet cannot reasonably hope to win renown as a dramatist...