Word: adrian
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...with [him]," exclaimed Anthony Blanche, who was as "ageless as a lizard" and knew the family well "-such attitudes, my dear, like Madame Recamier; once, I passed them, and [the] gondolier . . . gave me such a wink. . . . She sucks [men's] blood. You can see the toothmarks all over Adrian's . . . shoulders when he is bathing...
...concerts at the larger Adelphi Theater he has had to turn away crowds. Last week's show at the Adelphi sold better than the last time the London Philharmonic played there. To the first session Gross invited a handful of notables to come and hear for themselves. Sir Adrian Boult, Pianist Myra Hess and Composer Benjamin Britten sent regrets, but Mrs. Anthony Eden came, and wrote a fan letter. Tenor Richard Tauber stuck it out for two hours, then said politely: "This is ... a complete change from the music to which I am accustomed...
Baldish, moustachioed Sir Adrian Boult, who heads the crack BBC Symphony Orchestra, boasts that "blood seldom flows at my rehearsals." But last week his musicians were up in arms: bad blood was up, if not flowing...
Before guests invited to a BBC rehearsal in London's Albert Hall, Sir Adrian told his men that they were "all too tired to play their best." He advised them to emulate him by resting up weekends, specifically forbade golf, gardening and repair work on blitzed houses. "A little washing up" (but not too much) was sufficient exercise, he said...
...musicians were irate at being told off in public, but Sir Adrian budged not an inch: "If the public were eavesdropping they had no right at all. ... I was not nasty and I did not lose my temper, as perhaps I have to do once every five years...