Word: alec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Alec Guinness, a balding skinnybones with the wide, dashed look of a boy who has just blown his lines in the Sunday-school pageant. In the last six months mild-voiced young Alec has provoked the Old Vic's stage into varied and resonant life. As the Fool in King Lear, Time & Tide found him near "perfection." The Daily Telegraph thought his cockalorum De Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac "a remarkable feat...
Last week, after his first postwar leading part (as Shakespeare's penn'orth king, Richard II), Alec had London's dour critics giddily tapping their umbrellas. The Daily Herald: "This is Shakespeare done in a way that gives luster to the English theater. . . ." The Daily Telegraph: ". . . Admirable economy . . . not a touch nor a tone seems wrong." The consensus: Alec Guinness is the most versatile new actor to appear on the British stage since...
...shoulder. Bull had tried to restore the savoir-vivre of the magazine's good old days (TIME, Dec. 16), had given "the wellborn, the rich and the able" a nodding acquaintance, at least with such dressy writers as W. H. Auden, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Ludwig Bemelmans, Alec and Evelyn Waugh, Oliver La Farge...
...catch the buyer's eye, record companies are turning some strange handsprings. Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel can be heard singing Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' in one album, and in another, Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, who can't read music, conducts a symphony orchestra in Alec Wilder's jazzy suites (Columbia, 6 sides...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Stravinsky's Rites of Spring, Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B Flat Major. Soloist: Pianist Alec Templeton. Conductor: Artur Rodzinski...