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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 30,

1954.

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A

IR Thomas Beecham,

doyen !!

British

conductors, celp.

brated bis

| birthday yesterday.

BUTLERS

BUDGET

BASHES BOXING

• ONLY ALA TARGIFT

"At least he's given the boys' a bit of incentive."

London Express Service

And

Magician

His Wand

By GERALD

BOURKE

of

cx-

the vast

certs in London, immaculately played and spiced. with typical sweetmeats such as Berlioz's

"Royal Hunt and Storm”

But what of Sir Thomas д

favourite Beechami

angelo'es

A Man And The Drug Menace

A

YOUNG British police offlcer helped to round up trampa in Egypt. Fivo hundred of them- trembling, ragged, and glassy-eyed-were taken to police stations in Calro. Mostly they were picked up while scavenging in dustbins for food.

Every man was fi berojn addiet.

From that day. 40 years ago, the young Englishman declared a personal cryoade against the traffickers.

He died in London this month, nged 74, From that day I Calro ho became world famous for his fight to smash the drug ring.

Не Was Major-General Sir Thomas Russell-known to the world as Russell Pasha.

For 25 years he was head of the Central Narcotics Intelli- gence Bureau and his patrols ranged the deserts searching for camel caravans carrying dope.

Russell Pasha became an anti- drug crusader when he realised that opium, herain, occaine, and hashish were being smuggled into Egypt IR ever-increasing quantities.

PRICE RAISED

When he became chlef of the Cairo police Russell-who never smoked того than 10 mild Egyptian cigarettes a day---tried all kinds of methods to rld Egypt, and the world, of the drug plague.

Ho raised the price of herol from £30 a b. to £300.

This pit it out of the reach of the majority of the popula- He also ordered hundreds

Lion

be

75th where and I was finally re- There followed Reasons absence, a new generation

watched duced to the extremity of with the Diaghile Ballet, concert-goers

of acres of poppies and hemp, hiring a small boat and this time presented by his pectantly as the famous dapper wit and sage? We each have our For more than 50 years.

figure slowly entered

which were a source of drugs, to Mall to conduct like the one, probably quite he has devoted his music rowing to the middle of the father with whom he had Hoyal Albert

burned To

But this did not prevent tho genius not only to conduct. lake, where at last I could become reconciled after a again his London Philharmonic untrue, of how, on entering

what by nine-year estrangement. Orchestru. An electrifying con- conduct a foreign orchestra, he

amugglers bringing the stuff i

Drugs typical noticed the players bent low as

hidden in ing superbly works by his let myself go on

the In 1914,

Thomas Ser began

Chabrier's though adjusting their desks in-

wheels of donkey carta, luayes of favourite composers, notably that time I had discovered

conducted "Espons,"

with stead of rising to greet him.

bread, the clothes of bogus ruina Delius and Mozart, but also to be without question the Beecham was knighted for Beecham showpiece,

Slowly he mounted the rostrum and priests, inside dead chickens. and remarked calmly: "Gentle-

and horses nosebags. men, let us pray?"

Sir

with #

to administrating and most unpopular medium of services to music, two years exuberance and clan.

the before succeeding to often financing various musical sound."

musical enterprises.

the Between

artistic

director

with

their

Fortunately he has scaronly bowed to the years, and in June travels to Finland to conduct at the Sibellus festival, given in

win could conductors readler

from response A wrist injury then baronetcy.

WRTS, 1992 player-Sir Thomas never die- forced him to abandon all

and did not No conductor is the mas- thought of

where pianist's stands out as the year in which carded his beton, 11

the London Phil- disdain to use a score he founded

per- ter of

each career.

required and his Mozart all, since

Then in 1907 his

Orchestra harmonic specialises to Home degre meeting with the profound which he made several record- formances were considered the honour of a composer whom he has consistently championed. but if we unite servica

British composer, Frederick ings, now justly famous-and finest to be heard.

Well done, Sir Thomas," long polable Another of

postwar music with ability, I would Dellus, who was living near became

event was his entry into the may you wield your wandi gladly place first this Fontainebleau,

proved Covent Garden. magician and his wand.

mutually beneficial, Thomas Beecham was at once at- Born to n wealthy La

tracted by his distinctive indur cashire family of trialists, Thomas Beechan: idiom, so remole from cur- For his part, was brought up in cultural rent trends.

Delius wax the first first and surroundings.

recognise his friend's heard orchestral music 031 his father's elaborate Swiss questionable gifts

ductor. A local or- musical boxes. ganist

fired the boy's en- thusiasm for Mozart, whose operatic characters soon be- eame more real to him than

to

un-

as con-

When we now enjoy the

his neighbours. His taste in fine recordings made by Sir clothes WAH

more Thomas Beecham even

fastidious, and his memory Delius Trust, we

for the can re-

so retentive that, at the member their strong friend- age of eight, he learned ship, formed partly during Shakespeare's "Macbeth" holidays spent in Norway. within a few days.

Indeed, Sir Thomas seems happiest when conducting The rarefied upbringing works by Dellus, and always was abruptly ended, when distils their full poetic he entered Rossall public beauty.

school, though he soon be- Three years later, Mr

acclimatised, and Thomas

Beecham,

came

ho

gained prestige by batting then WCB, leased Covent for four hours. During the Garden for seasons of opera holidays, he accompanied in English, so breaking the his father on one of his long tradition of foreign frequent business trips to seasons at the national America.

opera.

Delius's "A Village Romeo and Juliet" WAR mounted, and later London

Sir Thomas Beecham (extreme left) with the Com- -Dr Thomas mittee of the Royal Philharmonic Society Wood, Mr Julian Herbage and Mr Theodore Holland.

Today he conducts his fifth pit at Covent Garden, for the selected orchestra, 250th time when he conducted saw, for the first time, personally

the 150th performance given Richard Strauss's sensation- the Royal Philharmonic, which On going up to Oxford, al operas, "Salome" and includes many of Britain's bert there of Wagner's comic opera, "Die Meistersinger," for which instrumentalists, conducted by Beecham wanted "Elektra,"

he had selected outstanding Sir Thomas is almost es Continental artists. to become a concert pianist, him in the face of strong

well-known in America as in

to FO returned or composer but also joined aesthetic objections to the Britain. When

in 1945 after Britain fully in University life, subjects.

Thomas

playing rugger for hla college. At the time, how- over, nil music studenta

looked to Germany as an indispensable training ground, and be made $15.00 several visits to Dresden 25.00 and Bayreuth, the Wag- 25.00 nerian stronghold.

35.00

10.50

10.50

Last

Benson, ho gava A a long, special series of popular con

NEWELL ROGERS REPOrting ameRICA

Hidden Eyes Watch Gamblers

New York sense. The percentage, of dowdy On return he composed &TTONESTY will certainly women is very high in England grand opera to his own 11

H bo the safest policy, American.

#ays the New York Journal

libretto in the manner of from

the time.

now on, in the casinos at Las

won artistic

no novelty to Rudolf Bing, honour, the Stalin Kossuth British manager of the Met, prize. owners But it is a bit dismaying to in

JUST after drought-ridden

remember, fled from Com- munist ungary to the West year ago with his wife because they hated tho "anooping and supervision there." The Wagner but, more import- gambling.

had dancer CUT-THROATS on the stage year-old 5.00 ant, was invited to conduct Vegas, in the cactus State of the Metropolitan Opera are Hungary's highest 4.00, the Halle Orchestra in place of Nevada. 5.00 of the veteran conductor,

For the casino 5.00 Hans Richter, on one oc- 1.00 casion. He was only 20 at have installed closed circuit meet a real one at dusk

TV. 10.00

Over their circuits they can In his witty autobio-soo every roulette table, every

group 24.00graphy, "A Mingled Chime," dice-playing

luxurious gaming, rooms, 15.00 Beecham describes. his

* MRS VERA BICE, aged 14, efforts to add the trombone tut-tapping, and patrons for They can watch crouplers for

has had, twin babies elb. THE NOBE of Istvan 100%. boy and a 815. Box, girl. 18.00 to the instruments he had cheating.

tamed, "I retired to a re- And nobody in the rooms will | Rabovsky is to be

Columbus, Ohio. shortened: She ta from

Ist. It her daughter follows her mote corner of the cathedral be aware of the all-seeing eye, by doctors, and then

become a film example,...she can be a grand- raveyard, the quietest and AION NOTE

star. He has been chosen to mother before she is “30,

females fim of the

the

..

Central Park when you

are Texas finished praying for rain, a cloudburst fell on Alamo, quietly walking your dog.

Texts. Soldiers had to evacuato The cut-throat who pressed 150 householders threatened by a knife against Bing's throat Hot Ave-foot-deep floods. his wallet with 370 in it and a $40 wrist watch,

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTD. most sechided, pot in the males are rated the world's bed play. Ninty thrillywood Heyna Ropes, in Ver

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place. Once again I was re- drwand mens British quested to take myself sles-jare notoriously lacking in style cancer's life, latvan, you may guess I jurt nos tired of school..

Were

Camels, of course, were mostly used by the smugglers. At the Kanatara desert frontier post. Russell Pasha set up his magic

watch eye to

the Levantine caravany, The X-ray apparatus was able to detect meial con- tainers of drugs in the stomach and gullet of camels.

BURNING WORDS

Tall, lean, Russell Pasha, finally retired Just after the war and went back to the Cotswolds to enjoy his hobbies of salmon fishing and shooting. But you want to understand the kind of man he was, read this extract of report he

on a Swiss drug trafficker de "No vistons of domented, tortured victims ever came to disturb him. No pictures

of broken-down humanity turning to crime to abtain money to buy his drug, no vista of ruined lives, shattered ambitions, dis rupted

families ever troublexi his dreams in the peaceful little Swiss suburb. He was just a plain business man."

Ok

Those were the

#burning words

a once-obscure policeman. But he was a dedicated man with the curious crusading quality of the British.

He found half a million drug- drunk peasants when he went to Egypt When he left the country it was almost as res- pectabia

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