Word: coventionalism
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...comedy. But that's what he was doing. As yet it had no name, and the chances of its ever seeing the lights of London were none too good. Especially since Goldsmith got along so poorly with the theatre managers--Garrick of the Drury Lane, and Coleman of the Covent Garden...
...years later Johnson was writing: "Dr. Goldsmith has a new comedy in rehearsal at Covent Garden to which the manager predicts ill success." "She Stoops to Conquer," had at last been hit on as a name, and the opening was set for the night of March 15th, 1773. But the rehearsals dragged badly. Colman's pessimism was contagious. The actors walked through their parts like sulky children. At the last minute the male lead quit, and an erstwhile Harlequin had to take over the part...
...father preached pills, Sir Thomas Beecham has preached music in England, spending 25 years and $10,000,000 on symphony concerts and operas. Often Sir Thomas has remarked good-naturedly that music in England is one long, promissory note. But at the season's gala opening in Covent Garden last week, England's No. 1 conductor was in no mood for suave epigrams. The opera was Fidelia, a heavy choice for Londoners less interested in Beethoven than in the King and Queen of Siam who sat in the royal box. The overture started but conversation buzzed on. Suddenly...
...stage but the smart New Yorkers who crowded the opera house had no intention of sitting back and listening staidly to a Puccini per- formance. The Metropolitan was housing a ball, modeled after the balls which have occasionally been given at London's historic Covent Garden and the famed Paris Opéra. The Paris Opera House during the Second Empire was the scene into which the Metropolitan had suddenly been con- verted. Mrs. August Belmont was not in the Diamond Horseshoe where she belongs. Bewigged and betrained like the Empress Eugenie she sat enthroned on the stage beside...
British gossips thought they knew why. Ethel Snowden, who was not only a Governor of the B. B. C. but is vice-chairman of Covent Garden Opera Syndicate as well, is of course the wife of bitter little Viscount Snowden who resigned from the National Cabinet and broke with his old friend Ramsay MacDonald rather than accept the Ottawa tariff agreements. Appointments to the B. B. C. board are made by King George on recommendations of the Prime Minister. Appointed to Lady Snowden's place was Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton, onetime Laborite M. P., who has published an extremely...