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Chin Tufts & Bravos. Last week, after concerts by the U.S.'s flamboyant Leonard Bernstein (conducting from the piano), the redoubtable Sir Thomas Beecham and France's crack Loewenguth String Quartet, one performance stood out as loftily as old Edinburgh Castle itself. In King's Theatre, when the curtain went down on the Glyndebourne Opera Company's new and magnificent production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, the audience leaped to their feet, mixed their applause with wave after wave of bravos...
...Edinburgh oldtimers, Glyndebourne's production of Ariadne, a complex opera-within-a-play, was the four-year-old festival's most ambitious single project yet. Some of the credit went to chin-tufted Sir Thomas Beecham in the pit. But most of it was due to a big, swarthy, white-maned man named Carl Ebert, who has directed the famed Glyndebourne, and all of its festival productions, since Glyndebourne's start...
Conductors Leopold Stokowski and Arthur Fiedler, who have already tried being radio disc jockeys, were joined this week by Britain's loquacious Sir Thomas Beecham. New York City's WQXR began a series of recorded Beecham chats (Wed. 8:05-9 p.m.). Vacationing in Paris, Sir Thomas told a TIME correspondent how he happened to do the transcriptions...
...Beecham, the Earl's butler and a member of parliament, is played superbly by Cecil Parker. He is the man who provides the situation humor of the picture; the Earl's remarks are little gems that are usually quite irrelevant to the main flow of action. The other players are all well-cast and move gracefully out of the way when Mr. Matthews' commentaries reach a crescendo of bumbling...
There is a great amount of humor squeezed out of the essentially trite plot of "The Amazing Mr. Beecham." The lines are witty throughout, no words are wasted, and the story is kept from lagging. Though the irrelevant comments of the Earl could be considered the theme or the raison d'etre of the movie, enough social commentary is sprinkled into the dialogue to keep audience interest alive on more than one level...