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Casual travelers in London's busy Victoria Station saw a strange sight for a bright afternoon: scores of elegant ladies & gentlemen, decked out in full evening dress, were scurrying to catch the 3:45 train for Lewes, Sussex, 51 miles away. Their destination that day last week was the 135-acre, exquisitely landscaped Glyndebourne estate, their objective, the opening of the biggest postwar Glyndebourne Opera season, Britain's unique Mozart festival...
...months after that, Elsie, under still another name, was in the Royal Sussex Hospital persuading doctors that she had a bleeding ulcer. An operation was performed to determine her trouble, but before the surgeons were satisfied Elsie left the hospital. Less than two months later, she was back at Croydon, "doubled up in agony" from abdominal pain...
Back in Vienna, he got word from Carl Ebert in England to round up singers for a wealthy British landowner and music lover named John Christie, who wanted to start a Mozart festival at his Sussex estate, Glyndebourne. Bing did, later dropped around to see how the singers were doing. He fell in love with England, and with green Glyndebourne in particular...
...Right Man. John Christie took a liking to the likable, competent Viennese, hired him to work under Ebert and Busch. He found Bing useful to have around. Among other things, Bing thought up some ideas for persuading music lovers to travel 60 miles from London into the Sussex countryside to enjoy Mozart. One of them - gift vouchers at Christmas which could be exchanged for Glyndebourne seats- is still in use. Says John Christie, who is proud of having a former assistant running the Met: "He's the right...
...ablest craftsmen in this modest vein is 32-year-old, Sussex-born P. H. (for Percy Howard) Newby, who is little known in the U.S., but highly regarded at home. His new novel, The Young May Moon, is so neatly constructed and so quietly effective in the flow of its prose that until the very end it seems more substantial than it actually...