Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music Magic," on the same bill, tells the story of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during the war. The movie is acted by actual Orchestra members, and therefore lacks professional finish. But if you're interested in seeing Constant Lambert, Sir Adrian Boult, and the Philharmonic in action, it's worth sitting through...
...Sir Alfred Zimmern, professor of International Relations at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and director of the Hartford Study Center for World Affairs, will speak at 3:30 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. His subject will be "The Greeks, the Romans, and Ourselves...
...Died. Sir Bernard Pares, 82, historian and authority on Russia; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. British-born, non-Communist Sir Bernard (George V knighted him in 1919 for helping the short-lived pro-Allied Kerensky government) visited Russia more than 20 times, was firmly convinced that Stalin (unlike Lenin and Trotsky) was a patriot interested only in his own country's security (rather than ia world revolution and Communist domination...
...only principal who seems to enjoy his role, apparently because he really believes in it, is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, as a sniffly, red-nosed King Arthur. The rest of the clanking, top-heavy production has the hollow, dejected air of a joke with its punch line missing...
...Arthurian lance. To save himself from the stake, he has only a pocketful of modern matches, a watch crystal, a hefty magnet and an almanac. This, of course, is where the fun should begin. But it doesn't. Bing riffles through his wonder-working stunts, jousts with Sir Launcelot (Henry Wilcox-son) and rescues King Arthur's beautiful niece (Rhonda Fleming) with his tongue conspicuously in his cheek. To underline his bare-faced parody of a second-rate Bing Crosby, he also sings a few typically Crosby tunes...