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...been Joseph Beecham's idea, but he was finally converted to his son's music, began to back him. In 1914 Joseph Beecham's long passion for theatrical properties reached a climax when (in a syndicate) he bought no less an item than London's Covent Garden Opera House, complete with the vast Covent Garden vegetable market that adjoins it. When World War I broke, Beecham pere's colleagues backed out, left him holding the bag. In the bag was nominal ownership of the Opera House, the adjoining market, nine other theaters, and an unpaid...
...that he fell off the podium into the second violins. "Podiums," he remarked, on recovering himself, "are expressly designed as a conspiracy to get rid of conductors." Like every other conductor worthy of his salt, Sir Thomas has told noisy audiences to keep quiet-his phrase for it in Covent Garden was: "Shut...
...Covent Garden would be made a national music and drama center and banished to the outer ring road. No structures would be rebuilt around St. Paul's Cathedral...
Died. Sir Oswald Stoll, 75, British showman; in London. Producer, impresario, manager, he had owned or controlled some dozen British theaters and music halls, among them London's famed Covent Garden and Coliseum...
...German generals are deliberately prolonging the enervating suspense. They want to conquer London by isolating it from the nearby arteries which every morning unload in Covent Garden, in Billingsgate and on the docks tons and tons of foodstuffs that London does not produce and without which the 7,000,000 inhabitants of the city could not resist one month...