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Know Thyself. In Luton, England, Thomas David Bolter, onetime sergeant major, was acquitted of being drunk and disorderly after he told the court his drinking capacity was "18 pints when I sit down," replied to the prosecutor's question, "Well, and what about when you stand up?" with "I fall over...
...English city of Luton, Bedfordshire (pop. 110,000) was divided last week over the question of levity on tombstones. By a slim, three-vote margin, Luton's city fathers decided that all epitaphs in the new town cemetery must be submitted to the Director of Parks for censorship. Sample of the kind of epitaph the town council opposes (as irreverent...
...head does, and you are always stumbling about. I tumble down about three times a week quite regularly . . ." Fortnight ago, while walking in the garden of his home at Ayot St. Lawrence in Hertfordshire, the 94-year-old playwright fell and broke his left thigh bone. Carted off to Luton and Dunstable Hospital, he soon got into an argument about his 74-year-old once-red beard, which the anesthetists wanted snipped. Shaw won by having the offending whiskers plastered to his face. Next day, in his cream-and-green private room, with his fractured femur fastened together by steel...
Delius: Society Set (Betty Beecham, piano, the Luton Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 12 sides). Delius, like Sibelius, is more highly thought of in England than in the U.S. In this English recording, his foremost champion has put together the C Minor Piano Concerto, the Marche Caprice and the soaring Song of the High Hills. Performance: excellent...
Handel: Messiah (Elsie Suddaby, soprano; Marjorie Thomas, contralto; Heddle Nash, tenor; Trevor Anthony, bass; Luton Choral Society and Special Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 42 sides). Sir Thomas has here equaled-and the recording has surpassed-his great performance of the Messiah recorded over 15 years...