Word: sussex
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Moved by his sympathy and a desire "to bring first-rate opera to this country,'' John Christie of Sussex founded (in 1934) the only privately owned Opera in England. Since then, Christie's little, 800-seat
Last week mid-afternoon travelers in London's Victoria Station recognized the signs of a new season when they saw a crowd in formal dress scurrying to catch the 3:45 for Lewes, Sussex, 54 miles away...
Seeking Perfection. Founder Christie, a onetime Eton science master, became fascinated with opera after inheriting $1,329,000 and 10,000 acres of Sussex-Devonshire real estate and subsequently marrying Singer Audrey Mildmay. From the first, he was frankly "seeking perfection"-and he paid to get it. For the posts of conductor, producer, and general manager, he imported a trio of top talents...
Nowhere to Nowhere. Hundreds of Englishmen exist for the sole purpose of keeping branch lines running, raising cash to rent doomed sections from Railway Boss Beeching, making weekend pilgrim ages to such officially abandoned routes as the Bluebell ("Nowhere to Nowhere") loop in Sussex. Despite a petition signed by 25,000 rail buffs, the Society for the Reinvigoration of Unremunerative Branch Lines in the United Kingdom (SRUBLUK) failed to keep open the scenic reach between Westerham and Dunton Green in Kent last October...
...Harvard Glee Club has recorded on a local label a handsome selection of the more worthwhile Christmas carols--Volume I (Cambridge Records CRS-401), for instance, includes Vaughan Williams' arrangements of the Gloucestershire and Yorkshire Wassails, "Lo, How a Rose," Gustav Holst's Personent Hodie, the sussex Carol, and "The Holly and the Ivy." The Glee Club, recorded in Memorial Church, sings under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, and performs with its usual fluency and competence...