A novel method of instruction by six squares marked out on the floor to demonstrate steps, which can be easily followed by the viewer in his own room by Alex Moore and Pat Kilpatrick.
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William Primrose, only in his early thirties, ranks with Lionel Tertis as one of the finest viola players in the world. He first studied the violin under Cammillo Ritter in Glasgow and showed such extraordinary talent that when he was sixteen he gained a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music, where he became a protege of Sir Landon Ronald. From 1925 Primrose studied under Ysaye who advised Primrose to change over to the viola-advice that Primrose took when Waldo Warner resigned from the London String Quartet.
Since then he has carried on the excellent work of Tertis to popularise the instrument that Berlioz called the Cinderella of the string family. The London String Quartet is no more, but Primrose has shown nearly every musical centre of the world that the viola deserves its place amongst other accepted solo instruments.
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February 6 was the date originally arranged for this programme, but Victoria Hopper and Basil Dean are able to appear before the television camera this evening, a fortnight earlier.
Victoria Hopper was born in Vancouver and originally studied operatic singing - she has a fine soprano voice, which listeners heard recently. Her first important stage success was in the name part of Jean Jacques Bernard's "Martine". She is now one of the most brilliant actresses on the West End stage.
Basil Dean, her husband, is a well-known theatrical figure. He has been actor, producing manager, stage director, dramatic critic, and author. His many successful West End stage productions include "The Skin Game", "A Bill of Divorcement", "Loyalties", "East of Suez", "R.U.R.", "Rain", "The Vortex", "Young Woodley", "Autumn Crocus", "Service", and "Call It a Day". As a film producer he has been responsible for "The Constant Nymph" and "Lorna Doone", in both of which his wife starred.
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