Word: coventionalism
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...five o'clock one morning last week, a crooked line of sleepy humanity took form in the grey streets behind the Covent Garden Opera House, London. Some 15 hours later they, the gallery gods, got their reward in mighty rustling of finery, the silent but splendid music of diamonds that plays at the opening of Britain's opera season...
...Rochester University. Its personnel is made up of students of music at the University, brought together through a competition for scholarships that pay, in addition to tuition, $50 a week. After four years' study and practice, under the guidance of Conductor Eugene Goossens, one-time conductor at Covent Garden, onetime guest conductor...
...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...
...Weber was told by a physician that he had but a few months to live, if he did not immediately take a rest and a sun cure in the South. He was considering a lucrative offer from London; Charles Kemble wished to produce Weber's opera, "Oberon," at Covent Garden. The emotional strain of such an event always left him weak for days afterward and he did not want to go to London. But going meant an inheritance for his wife and two baby sons, while living on aimlessly a few years more meant leaving his family in poor...
...first years after the war, at Covent Garden, London, a pair of "plus-fours" was seen. Following this outrage the tuxedo, dinner garment of touts dining in company and gentlemen dining alone, appeared frequently in the boxes, where none without full evening dress dared enter in the days when good King Edward reigned. Last week the management of Covent Garden made evening dress once more obligatory...