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Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Utica Celestia Beecham; by goateed Sir Thomas Beecham, noted English conductor currently directing in Seattle; in Idaho City. Married in London in 1903, he said they had not lived together since...
...Women," exploded English Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham after finding three of them facing him from the ranks of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra "are like the vultures on the battlefield: they appear after everyone else is dead. I believe women should do their worst. They always have done their worst. They ought to go on doing worse than ever. The sooner they're allowed to run their course, the sooner the present era will blow up in ineptitude, inefficiency and incompetence. There will be five years of no music, and at the end people will...
...Montreal concert audience began applauding before the orchestra had quite finished a chorus. Famed Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham whipped around, shouted: "Silence! We don't applaud before the orchestra has finished playing." When the orchestra had properly finished, the audience then responded with a chorus of its own: "Booo...
Soprano Djanel's Carmen was backed up as expertly as a debutante could wish: in the pit was Guest Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, who has been pulling opera performances together for 40 years. (He has been known to conduct from memory with no more preparation than a last-minute query: "What's the opera to night...
Carol Concert (Thurs. 12:05 p.m. CBS), with Sir Thomas Beecham conducting orchestra and chorus in a program that includes excerpts from The Messiah...