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Able, splenetic Sir Thomas Beecham had once disdained the Scots as "damned fools to throw away ?60,000 on a festival." But on opening night, before a jammed audience in Usher Hall, he was right there, ready, and with Franck, Sibelius, Brahms and Berlioz, he put on as good a show as ever. When he waved the men of his Royal Philharmonic to their feet on the fourth curtain call, they sat still; he howled at them in mock fury, then turned to the delighted audience: "You have observed, ladies and gentlemen, that this orchestra has every sort of virtue...
Battle Stations. In St. Louis, during an argument in Sportsman's Park, Baseball Fan Joseph Cherry took off his glasses, removed his false teeth, then punched Usher William F. Goza in the nose...
...boned junior usher from Brooklyn, New York, stole the first Class Night show in Harvard history last night and turned the Eliot House courtyard into a tumult of screams and shouts, as an overflow crowd tossed off barrels of beer while watching a vaudeville program staged by the 1949 Class Day Committee...
...usher, Donald Carnwell '50, performed as master of ceremonies introducing other scheduled activities between two-line jokes and jovial ripostes...
Other members of the cast include James A. Gregg '51, Usher; Daniel B. McCook '48, Defendant; Joan Dexter '52, Plaintiff; David N. Shapiro '51, Plaintiff's Counsel; and David H. Barnhouse '49, Foreman of the Jury. The Jury will consist of 12 Puritans. The chorus of partisan spectators and bridesmaids comes from the 'Cliffe...