London, Sept. 15.
Describing the new concert hall, the Brighton Dome, recently erected at Brighton at a cost of £40,000, as being "of no earthly use to me."'Sir [Thomas Beecham delivered a seathing speech on the "merits" of the structure, at the conclusion of a concert there to-day. said he had been asked to give his opinion on the new building. "I have put my stick through three of the windows in the dressing-rooms," he declared, "and, before I go, I intend to put-it through the rest."
have had to. walk up three fights of stairs to the dressing rooms, which are hermetically sealed and "won't open," continued the famous conductor.
"In Aberdeen a few years a he added, "I was greeted with carpets, 'a reception, cigars and champagne also, for an orchestra not half as good as this one, but here they get nothing, if those grand old war-horses of song, Melba or Tettrazini, went up those stairs, they wouldn't come down again.
congratulate you on this magnificent structure," concluded Sir Thomas. "I hope it may be of some use to you. It is of no earthly use to me."—Reuter,
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