Word: beecham
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...point of appreciating it. In the first, Walter Damrosch is no pre-eminent figure. In the second, he is perhaps the greatest of all. Despite his drawing room graces, he is, at heart, a democrat. He works less for the highest perfection than for the most good. Sir Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation to art as the roaring of the bull of Bashan bears to the voice of Galli-Curci." (TIME, Nov. 15). Declared Walter Damrosch: "If I continue broadcasting one orchestra...
...Thomas Beecham, musician, pill-maker: "Before my forthcoming departure to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 15) I last week in Belfast reiterated my scornful opinion of the English. Asked for a panacea, I said...
...that friendly, pleasing, erratically intense gentleman, Sir Thomas Beecham, patron, promoter and active proponent of the best in British music since 1906 when he first conducted his New Symphony Orchestra and 1908, when he founded the Beecham Symphony Orchestra. The London Philharmonic Society (1915-19) and opera in England (1909-19) were other activities to which he had given his time, imagination and much of his patrimony. At last he was discouraged with writing, reviving, conducting, subsidizing more music than any one man has ever done in England before or since...
...money Sir Thomas Beecham has poured out to advance the musical education and opportunities of Britons, not only at Covent Garden but in park bandstands and at the colleges, was amassed, as everyone knows, through the world-famed pills which his father, Joseph (later Sir Joseph) invented as a farm boy and peddled on country roads until he could make the backs of barns, signboards and fence-rails peddle for him. "Beecham's Pills,"* the newspapers and country sides of England, eventually of the world (including Greenland), echoed and re-echoed. Sir Joseph died the third richest...
...Joseph Beecham while a boy helped cure sick farm animals, found that the English peasants liked potent effects from their medicines. They even used horse remedies on themselves. So when, at 20, he devised his physic pill he used aloes, ginger and soap. Aloe is bitter and astringent, and is used under prescription for some cases of menstrual irregularities, chronic constipation, atonic dyspepsia and worms. It is apt to be intensely griping, an effect which Sir Joseph modified with his ginger -but not too much, for his customers wanted lively results. The pills themselves are lively. They bounce 14 inches...