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Most interested in Boots was Mr. Hill, already chairman of its two big rivals (Timothy Whites and Taylors) and of Beecham Pills, Ltd. and Veno Drug Co., a manufacturing concern. He agreed to form a syndicate to buy the Boots stock for $25,000,000. London was agog with tales of a gigantic combine and happy over the prospects of having so big a concern come home to roost, laying its dividends on British soil. The U. S., of course, was pleased in the unique achievement of making a $15,000,000 profit out of a foreign investment. And then...
Twenty-five years ago most Britishers had never heard of Delius. Sir Thomas Beecham undertook to make him known. Few Britishers remember seeing him hale and active. Two years ago when Sir Thomas conducted a six-day Delius festival, the composer was already paralyzed, nearly blind, had to attend the concerts in a wheel chair. Two months ago in honor of his 70th birthday British Broadcasting Corp. radioed Delius music far & wide...
Because Sir Thomas Beecham is in Manhattan now, conducting the Philharmonic Symphony, he had no hand in performing the Songs of Farewell. But with the Philharmonic he played three of Delius' best-known works: Brigg Fair, Summer Night on the River, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring...
Most prodigious of all, Yehudi Menuhin, 14, wore his first long pants in London, to play Beethoven's Violin Concerto under Sir Thomas Beecham...
Goossens' first job as a conductor was under Sir Thomas Beecham (opera, pills) after which he led the Diaghilev ballet for five years. In 1923 he went to Rochester where he was helped by his strong, handsome appearance. In Rochester last year he found a second wife for himself, pretty, 21-year-old Janet ("Jansy") Lewis, a student at the Eastman School of Music. (His engagement to his good friend, Mrs. Christian Holmes of Fleischmann's Yeast wealth, had previously been rumored and denied.) Goossens' hobbies are Shakespeare and shark fishing. His best known composition: the opera...