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Also in London, for six weeks beginning in May at the Lyceum Theatre, a Russian Opera Company, starring Basso Feodor Chaliapin, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, whose famed pills were once advertised by a parody of "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing...
...performances a year. Only for ten weeks in the spring will world-famed artists be engaged. Six-week seasons in autumn and winter and fortnightly seasons in six outlying cities will be given by British artists at popular prices. The scheme is not unlike that propounded by Sir Thomas Beecham who has already spent $10,000,000 of his pill fortune on opera in England...
...Thomas Beecham, famed orchestral conductor, son of the potent pill tycoon, read in a London newspaper last week that he had been fined ?10 ($50) for failing to answer a summons...
...Thomas Beecham is a busy man," explained the solicitor to the judge, who promptly remitted the ?10 fine when the solicitor pledged his word of honor that a hotel bill for ?16 which busy Sir Thomas had also forgotten to pay, and which was the cause of the original summons, would be paid at once...
MOZART'S SYMPHONY No. 34 by Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic (Columbia, $4.50)-Sir Thomas again shows his deftness at finding and following happy, graceful detail...