TWO SHOCKS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 11

TWO SHOCKS

DID NOT FACE THE MUSIC BEECH AM ’ S AFFAIRS LONDON, April 1. 'llic affairs of llir eminent conductor. Sir Tliomn.s Beeeliani, arc again engaging public attention. Hi- lias first of all struck against, Ihe Broadcasting Corporation over tin- question of programmes. He was i I'cent Iv nimble, owing illness, to conduct 'the Queen’s Hall orcliestr;,. The corporal ion appointed u substitute, also altering the pro•'Tiiinim.' and postponing certain items for a later concert. Sir Thomas Beeeliani tiiereupoa submitted an entirely revised programme for the later concert, saying, ‘‘Lither mv programme or 1 will not conduct. As the 8.8. C. sat tight ho refusal to conduct the orchestra. Meanwhile his private allairs en-l-aaed the attention of the Westminster (‘ouhty Court, whither he lias (jeon summoned in connection with the balance of a judgment lor debt owing to a London hotel since .lb-li. Iho judge ordered Sir Thomas Beechnm to be called, saying that he would treat him like anyone else. As the conductor is in Wales then- was no reply. The judge fined him £lO, and committed him for six weeks with costs. Sir Thomas Beeeliani, again interviewed at Newport, said that lie was surprised and shocked. “Mv lawyers must have overlooked it,” lie added.