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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long tour (nine months in the Antipodes) of Sir Laurence Olivier and his Lady, Vivian Leigh, came to an end at Tilbury Docks, with the most adroit curtain call of the week. The veteran troupers managed to impart a little of their own sure charm to what would otherwise have been a routine ship-news photograph...
Shakespeare: Hamlet (spoken excerpts by Sir Laurence Olivier, with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Muir Mathieson conducting; Victor, 6 sides). In addition to Laurence Olivier's fine soliloquizing, music lovers can hear on this album how good movie music can be. English Composer William Walton did a lot in Olivier's Henry V to lift the standards of film scores; in Hamlet he raises a craft to an art. The score never intrudes, but accompanies the spoken word like an orchestra accompanying the piano or violin in a concerto. Recording: good...
Mozart: Concerto No. 4, K. 218 (Jascha Heifetz, violinist, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Heifetz is too often sleek where cleanliness, clarity and simplicity are called for. Recording: good...
...Malahide papers were only the beginning. In 1936, a second wandering scholar announced that he had stumbled upon another cache of papers scattered throughout Scotland's Fettercairn House, home of Lord Clinton, descendant of Boswell's executor Sir William Forbes. Under the terms of his deal with Lord Talbot, Colonel Isham claimed those papers too, and after years of wrangling over Boswell's will, won half of them from a Scottish court. The other half, which had been awarded to the heirs of Boswell's granddaughter, he bought. Meanwhile, Malahide had yielded yet another batch...
Breakfast with Garrick. The papers range from tiny scraps on which Boswell jotted his observations, to 1,300 pages of working manuscript of the Life. There are pages of Boswell's journal, letters from Sir Joshua Reynolds, Garrick, Burke, Voltaire, a journal of Boswell's tour of Italy, notes for a life of General Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia. Boswell not only kept a copy of the letter he wrote Rousseau asking for an interview ("J'écris mal le francais,'' he apologized), but managed to get his hands on a letter Rousseau wrote...