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After an attack of sciatica cut short his U.S. concert tour, Britain's explosive Sir Thomas Beecham flew home to London where he was trundled through customs in a wheelchair. His plans? Said Lady Beecham to reporters: "He's going to do what I tell him for a change." Fumed Sir Thomas: "I've always done what she tells me. Marriage is one of the subtler forms of tyranny-imponderable but effective...
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Suffering from a touch of sciatica, terrible-tempered Sir Thomas Beecham arrived in California to conduct the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, waggled his sharp tongue again at another music form: "There is no future in opera . . . Most operas are in the hands of grocers, so how can you expect good music? If I want to see pretty pictures, I go to the movies. If I want to hear orchestral music, I go to a symphony concert...
Towers himself produces about 35 shows in Britain (TIME, July 7, 1947), and he owns the foreign rights to some 100 more. They range from such cultural items as Sir Thomas Beecham's classical disk-jockey show to a blood & thunder crime series starring Orson Welles. Of the London-made programs, only two-Welles's The Black Museum and The Gracie Fields Show-are heard on a U.S. network (Mutual), but many of the others have been sold to individual U.S. stations. In turn, Towers exports to Britain and the Commonwealth nations such American series as The Hardy...
...Washington for a guest appearance with the National Symphony, Britain's terrible-tempered Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham was introduced to Post Music Critic Paul Hume, who a year ago got threats from the White House for being unimpressed by Singer Margaret Truman's voice. "Why, sir!" roared the British visitor. "I want to shake your hand. I consider you one of the national heroes." Then Sir Thomas had an afterthought: "My God, now the President will never come to my concert...