Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zealously as his 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...
...last act Sir Thomas wheeled on the chatterers to shout "Shut up," never missed a beat. Next night he shushed the coughers in the audience. The two performances left Londoners repentant but not Sir Thomas. Said he: "If it happens again I shall halt the orchestra, wait for silence and begin the overture all over again. And I will go on beginning it again until it is played through in silence...
...survived the 46 disenchanting years that have passed since it was put to paper. Tall Mary Hone, as the wife, performs creditably in a rôle last played in Manhattan by Blanche Yurka five years ago, by Eleanora Duse ten years ago.* Iolanthe. The operetta, during whose composition Sir Arthur Sullivan successively lost his father, brother, mother and fortune, still brings merriment to confirmed Savoyards. William Danforth adds one more Gilbert-&-Sullivan characterization to his long list with the part of the stately Lord Chancellor. Iolanthe is the fifth Gilbert-&-Sullivan revival by S. M. Chartock's capable...
...Collected poems: The Eaten Heart, A Dream in the Luxembourg, et al.; some new ones. A CHILD WENT FORTH-Helen MacKnight Doyle, M. D.-Gotham House ($3). Autobiography of a woman doctor in the West, famed as a U. S. pioneer in her profession. THE ROMANCE OF LABRADOR-Sir Wilfred Grenfell-Macmillan ($4). Famed missionary-doctor looks at the past, present and future of his adopted country. A GUIDE TO CIVILIZED LOAFING-H. A. Overstreet-Norton ($2). Hints on how to occupy the New Leisure, by a bright writer. NINE ETCHED FROM LIFE-Emil Ludwig-McBride ($3). Short biographies...
...anywhere with it we must first park our emotions outside. Pacifists and militarists alike have indulged in a good deal of loose talk on the subject. Most pacifists are not sufficiently informed; their arguments and accusations frequently boil down to nothing more substantial than Sir Arthur Eddington's definition of the Quantum Theory -- i.e., "Something unknown is doing we don't know what." Most militarists are insincere...