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[THE 'CHINA'". MAIL,' MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1957.
The US answer to Lord Foley
Lee's famous saying, "Nobody loyes me but people!" has been quoted against him as arrogant and conceited. It is nothing of the kind. It is an example of Lee's wit, with which he can more than hold his own against the pro- fessionals; and it is also unanswerable. The people do love him, for the very reasons that the people will always love a true artist: because he is obviously sincere, and his appeal is to humanity and to the heart.
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AT Sir Thomas Beecham's concerts these days,
a man site in the audience watching him through field `glasses and sketching furiously between glimpses.
The stormy old man will be 78 next month,' but sculptor David Wynne still has not been ablo to get him......... to slow down enough to sit for a bust. In desperation, he has decided to watch his subject during concerts and make the bust from drawings.
This month, Beecham dew in i from America bursting with Indigantion And
vitality. He once, however, he was bested. told Jaunched a furious assault
The Warden of Wadham on Americans who thoughs that him coldly: "Your untimely de "Britain has become some sort parture has perhaps spared us of thirt mte power."
the necessity of asking you
a
He had gone to Amorica 10 conduct the New Orleans Syr
and he had caused phony first rate outburst by threaten. ing to move
out of his hotel because
was disturbed by hud Jazz from nearby night- clube,
Men have been tarred and feathered in New Orleans for much less than that. The evidence is, however, that Bec cham's popularity, if anything, went up.
to
He is, however, seldom bested. When he was undisputed master of the Albert Hall, then the Mecca of London's music, he said brutally that the hall was "Britain's greatest rallway
staion." No one could think of an answer.
His career as a public alarm- lat undoubtedly had its start in
momentum
"Some critics just don't remember there are several of of seven behind the understand met And they these a week, besides the TV. store. don't understand me because shows, On top of that, Lee they won't give themselves practises for hours every day- the trouble of considering a concentrated practice, not whini I am trying to tio,
Oxfort and gained inere running over of familiar explains Lec.
Exactly. And what irying to do? He is trying to bring the joy and solace
ho
pieces.
Every
appearance
n
Is
of
"But it wasn't all plain recalls, with a sailing," she
"We had lois twinkling eye. of tussles, but I think I taught Fame. endlessly rehearsed, limed, per him something all the feeted; every note falls into He'd work tremendously hard if place as the result of hour after be was fired by the piece he of great music in the largest hour of precision playing. Then had to play But some plecea possible audience.
To this there is the business side of this had to be played for technique, huge task he has dedienied vast organisation-for it is vast music.
and not for the sake of the his life. My ambition is to
Lee loves
ali muale. munic and employs dozens
ore than the rest; play for everyone. If there now.
bui soine the principal, bu besides neople are some that will not hear, Liberace.
I some less. offler und Orchestras,
remember: that is my misfortune. But
make-up
artists,
piece he loved worker.
once I shall not cease to bring
I sold. tailors, wardrobe mistresses, practically not at all. musto to the millions,
Go out of my house, and don't the publicity agents, all are on "And my life's ambition is to
back until you have entertain us
all Day-roll.
"The days when I come many people
ean, and used to note down an engage learned it. At last, four days world us 1 over the
Juler, he come creeping in. one) in a for as long as I can, because I ment (when
Hary are over," believe music make's people ille pocket
tile wistfully. happy,"
almost every minute of the day is rented to somebody! Happier-well, yes, because know that all this hard work is
Tho rewards from show business are among the nost the world.
spectacular in
"Now
Boys,
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He
Ho has been a life-long de votee of what he has called the "well calculated indiscretion of opinion."
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"His theory is that loud noises attract attention and that, once A man's attention has been drawn to Beecham, the odds are that he will turn up soon at concert.
There are those who doubt it. But a High Court Judge dis. cussing the Delius trust recently paid tribute 10 the amazing
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SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
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when he abandoned the family pill business to take charge of a
орега rather seedy
company which toured the London suburba. His millionaire father cut him off more or less with-
"Eighty!" he exploded, “., out a penny. Thomas, to get his
took to own Fack,
preaching never had less than 250 on the Ring up all the music stage. from the street Socialism
teachers and
in colleges Later, when he inherited the onion. Tell them to send re
inforcements.” family fortune, he became more reconciled to the existing social order--but no deld has ever his pearing been Immune tongue.
COPTÈTE.
to
and Britain's explosive reply..
Liberace is one of the highest creative and worth while, But played it perfectly and then
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a man
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are dear
to me.
success Beecham has had in to the public. bringing music There was no doubt, the judge said, that the world knew of Delius largely because Beecham had made loud noises.
The did.
NEW CARS CHALLENGE
management dutifully THE GERMANS
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That settled they gave the score with a note `saying "The cuts are marked."
Tell
"My dear fellow," he bristled "there are no at the manager, cuts in my Meistersinger. the Opera Trust I am going to conduct the opera in its entire-
The first night opened at six anet lasted until 11,30,
He has founded six symphony orchestras (the last is the Royalty." Philharmonic) and lost nearly us much money as he has made.
In the 1930's hle financial troubles led him into the courts in- not where his testimony was Is
variably crisp, seld and eminent- y suitable to the evening news-
Of course, Beecham always consistent. He has been axture at the Edinburgh Fes- bival and the Festival, by any- body's reckoning, has brought a lol of music to a lot of people. Nevertheless, the spirit moved him last year to announce that
his
papers.
At one stage he had to sell all furniture and silver--a quan ty estimated to
run into tons.
Nobody complained No one in the audiences even dared wriggle.
For Beecham fans there
be too much ol
By BASIL CARDEW NEW British car the Aston Martin DB2-4, Mark III Joined the British challenge to the Germans at the year's first big motor show in Geneva.
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The car. produced by millionaire David Brown for export only, is developed trom the race-winning DB3S sports car.
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It is a sports saloon with a to new cylinder head to its
Etro engine developing 178 brake horse-power. Spood: 120 miles an hour plus. The will sell for just under £2,000 in dollars.
nover master,
сап the
Some musicians tactfully sug- gest that less Beecham and more
to almost everything else
"all festivals are burk," and He was soon rich again, how music might be good for Britain. that they "are there for the pur- ever,
his The fans, however, will have pose of attracting trade to the
none of it, town."
and soon back in enormous country houses.
Swiftest
car
THE NEW ASTON MARTIN- said to give a maximum of 155
miles an hour.
The re-engined Morris Minor 1,000 led the battle against Jaguars threw in their weight the German Volkswagen, at the 10-day show with their
And the "wiftest Ave-seater scems
British challenge new 3.4
have to
produced saloon in the world."
dividends for, even before the car manu-
this.
come
out
miss the comrade he said if anything could make stars
the In
af Functimes annals
nship of those early days, I have him hate the pinne, it was this entertainment,
but let
wonderful comradeship now he necordingly
piece. Thirty years later he suppose that ilves D
with Mom and George and the life of case
on T.V., and after luxury and
But played it
wards
said, "That is my He works great deal harder others, never doubt that.
he success takes its toll, just 28 than the fellow who does
favourite plano number! It was fullure does. Something must
Forest Murmurs, by Liszt." forty-hour week and
Bis three
be lost in getting to the top. A paid holiday and every few illusions shed, a weeks'
Lee's organisation includes a few friends week-end to himself and
Tesident orchestra of twenty-six and a gou!
player, conducted (of course) many public holidays ton, Lee's left regretfully behind..." saying this, Lee is
Liberace; a work is as physically exhausting
by George
large He never in his life office staff, personal manager, a as a shift in ensi mine-and modest.
of full-time this is not a joke. His docter forgot a friend, and many
lawyer, music that a single concer! calculates that a
hly assoclutes now remember arranger, business manager and of Lee's docs greater
from schooldays. A single bim damage to the times of his body than example will serve his first a personal secretary,
And what docs Lee Say a twenty-mile walk; and that professional music teacher was
about this band of loyal the
without nervous energy expended Mrs Florence Bettray Kelly, of
whom would drive
living Milwaukee, who sought him out associates
could not keep going? when he So
"Many normally for two dayк.
only seven cat
of them
close are
personal much for a concert: and because she heard of his great
gifts from a player in the local friends of many years' standing: Sure, I
The Germans' surprise from show began our symphony orchestra, who told all
Mercedes of Stuttgart, changed facturers' suciety announced that orders worth more that They
from her that the boy was wonder employ them and they look to t?-most
£23,000,000 me for bread, Why not?-
have come in under the shrouds with a Road- £23 fully gifted, but came from
Who else, they argue, could ster version of their 300 SL car, already for our three poor family, Mrs Kelly wasn't folk work somewhere, and for Do they work any
Austin A65
Blood Bomeone. with fees.
cars, the primarily concerned
keep the vast institutions which better
Its 250 the nation's music In.
ከ... they never set eyes on
fuel-injection the 3.4 "export only" Jaguar. although teaching for money the bors? These people give
With her
line? Who else can breathe new engine lies on its side and is and the Vauxhall Victor, was her profcasion.
me understanding and tolerance
His personality intrudes on Ind music hip she meant
and if the came irgi,
and offcction to see
and
he has tumed at regular inter- the drabness of the twentieth life into even the most hack- unfailing
nkyed music? My the service.
friendship he got it. For eight years the
vals. In 3840, he whipped up a century ke a Beethoven rym- with a deeper verbal concoction scored for full phony in a concert of chamber young player enjoyed the best them all is based
than that of
brass and threw it nolally at the music. And he is proud of 1. the tuition in Milwaukee, and his relationship
his weekly
Buffering directors' heads, pay packet, We all puld what they people pol
He insists that everything be Lee had never forgotten, and he serve one mistress, music. And
It Inoladed such ringlag on the granth scale. phrases is constantly in touch with Mrs nobody is the boss."
# "a hapless att of Nobody 19 the Kelly-sking her advice, and
boss....but
ignoramuses and nitwita" — * His fee for a single concert is fuking i-as though he were no there is one who is the leader,
description applied to "the £250, though he will sometimes ΠΟΤΕ world-famous now
than the inspirer.
people who run" the Opera offer a cut rate for when she came to hear the
House
At least one of the Opera'a leading figures, promptly telephoned his Lawyers. As what he asks. usual, however, Beecham had stayed within the law.
When, in 1951, he came back to Covent Gardon to conduct voice. The conductor's irascibilty Der Meistersinger, he enquired dates from his early youth. He how large the chorus was. He left Oxford after 18 months be- was informed that the normal cause he found it "uille". For chorus was 60 strong,
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The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, at which Bet- chom was once music director is another institution on which
he
as
Lordly,
He likes his surroundings
likes his music: spacious and gracious.
Needles
series.
to say he can
ret
Manage
Where is there another 'per- sonality on the same scale?
And, finally, who else could keep the Royal Philharmonic going and continue to pay the top musicians £100 a week?
To that there is no answer. Anyhow, God help anybody who tates to answer while Sir Thomas continues to have breath in his body and brass in
his
The U.S. Audience
bowest
and the "outsize bust"
London. watch the play. They get all
N the subject of Holly. the jokes thirty seconds quicker wood, Mr Wilfrid than anyone else, and if they don't like the play they get up Hyde White said to and go quietly. me: "You are no good to
Les Armour Hollywood unless you have
SOVIET SUBS CLOSE IN.
Where Russian submarinas. have been seen
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Coral Sea
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NEW CALEDONIA:
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'Long-rangers' around Australia
above' are five
"British audiences only come
a bust. If you have a bust to smoke cigars and go to sleep, and when they're asleep they they buy you up and put drop the cigars and before you you under glass and try to know it there's Are and get you to grow.
fire-brigade
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"It is rather like potting. out cucumbers."
the you've got round."
I am in a position to deny the report that there is a clauso
On the subject of the in Mr Hyde White's film and theatre contracts periniting American play, Mr Hyde him to stay away whenever White said: "They are there is a raen meeting... obsessed with lavatories. In
Britain we still like to pre Robert Robertson-
tend there is no such thing
as a lavatory, and really I think that's the beat approach in the long run."
meets
-Wilfred Hyde White.
Mr Hyde White-best- known feature player on the "Fraid they wouldn't wear British screen, star of "The it, old boy sald Mr. Hyda, Reluctant Debutante," and White regretfully. "But racing's" wonderful for the health, I currently filming in "Dear lost my voice the day we Charles" lay back in bed.. opened in New-York, so off ↑
"America used to be all went to a race meeting. right," he ruminated, "when you could go with three pence and come back with three million...
"Suddenly I saw my horse going ahead and forgetting my:
Arid do voice I gave a yell you know, I'd got my voice back and won three hundred dollars
"But now I feel sorry for damn fools who want to Very
sing once, stay there. Good heavens, though Came back from the if you want a ticket for races and went straight The to girl-abow at the 'My Fair Lady" "the hit of Hippodrome. Buddenly realised New York's Broadway just I was sitting in the front row now "you don't go to the with my race-glasses romd my box-office, you have to go to neck........
stock- confounded
in
PINPOINTED on the marines have recently been sighted. The reports have got broker and he quotes you a gomb, do, to be allow Australian naval experts worried--not only by the numbers of Red submarines in the prico l' Pacific but by their operational range. One, was seen only 40 miles from Darwin He added: "Marvellous, the you know.
harbour.
Most of the subs sighted are of the Red Navy's Waclass: displacement 2,900 tons when submerged; range 20,000 miles.
with a pair of binoculare size of Greenwich ObserĪVS
time the singer lost his voleo and..
was given their I fear I shocked
· Bersàibilities money back money back. Most of 'em bad White's paid sixty dollars seat on the severely when I ventured open market-but only got the him if he made a pront of his REAL Price back from the box racing oko 40 office. Served them dana wall, My dear follow," he said,
Naval experts of the SEATO Powers meeting in Canberra, are examining how to keep track of the Red, sub fleet in the Pacific.
Nothing can be done to prevent their activities as long as the submarines right!""
・oorth the more than buyin manned either by Russian or Communist Chinese crews-do not violate territorial waters.
PARA Serie But Mr Hyde While has Mastery. But you would
nothing brist penies for Ameri- 4 man to take a profit 'out But Australians are not likely, to forget similar reports of unidentified submarined can audiencen gena
tűs hobby, would you? between 1932 and 1939-when Japanese vessels were reconnoitring channels, urhey don't go, to the theatre Boatwomanhoolmaker harbour, and constal·
* for their: 'attempted-invasion of Australia in 1942. to talk and “drink, they come to shoes contentedir.
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