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...year ago Alla Nazimova decided Scriptwriter Arch Oboler was a genius, requested him to write a radio play for her. Pleased that Nazimova shared a conviction that he himself had held for years, Oboler turned out an opus called The Ivory Tower, in which, for the union minimum of $21, Nazimova made her first appearance on the air. This week Oboler will present another famed actress in her radio debut. She is Elisabeth Bergner, who will run through Oboler's latest radio work, An American is Born...
...mere popular music. ) The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street is irreverent in both directions. Announcer Gene Hamilton ("Dr. Gino"), who ordinarily handles such programs as the NBC Symphony and the Firestone hour, solemnly voices puns, non sequiturs (written by Scripter Welbourn Kelley), identifies a composition as "Opus 33, First Door to the Left," or "a small-fry rhapsody with no particular point," or "a slightly undernourished D Minor." Vice presidents seem to fascinate the Society. Once Dr. Gino began: "And as we look at our program (printed on the back of an old vice president). . . ." The Society...
Regarded as a pretty callow opus when presented in the U. S.. Thunder Rock was playing last week to sellout houses, at the large Globe Theatre. Nerve-frayed British playgoers, sick of revues and musical comedies, found a tonic in Ardrey's proposition that times are never so tough as to be hopeless. Sample of the dialogue that stirs the British: "Stick to your guns, for God's sake, stick to your guns! Men live among you today who will be the leaders you despair of finding!" Better played by Michael Redgrave in London than...
...00The War This Week--Henry Oyen. 8:15 Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado." 9:00 Excerpts from Ibsen's "Peer Gynt." Produced by the 41 Workshop. 9:15 Play It Again.--Popular Music. 9:45 Masters of Music--Sibelius' En Saga, 5th Symphony in E Flat Major, Opus 82 and three songs by Marian Anderson. 10:45 Crimson News, Sports, Interview...
...Stradivarius Quartet will give a concert tonight in the John Knowles Paine Hall of the Music Building at 8.15 o'clock. Tickets may be obtained free of charge by application at the Music Building. The program will be composed of Dvorak's Quartet in F Major, Opus 96, Haydn's Quartet, Opus 3, Number 5, and Hindemith's Quartet Number...