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Also on French soil last week was Britain's Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood. He bustled through the base fields, interviewed pilots who had seen action, said bonjour to one of their landladies by way of improving international relations. Correspondent William Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "A howling, 50-mile-an-hour gale and a soggy airdrome did not prevent one young gallant from going up and putting on a hair-raising show for us this noon 'just to show that we don't mind the weather.' For half an hour he dived...
...night last week Chicago's elegant Goodman Theatre was packed to its heavy oak doors. What drew this throng was no thunder-rousing maestro or pudding-fed diva, but a pair of pale, genteel young men who plunked softly on 18th-Century-model harpsichords. Before a silver backdrop, gently lit by amber lights, they joined in deft pluck-a-pluck duets by Mozart and Bach. Occasionally they were joined by two lush lady harpsichordists in 18th-Century lace and velveteen. To all this harpsichordery their audience listened reverently, applauded with loud smacks. For they were listening...
When they are not giving concerts, Chicago's Manuel & Williamson tinkle their harpsichords in privacy in a handsome old greystone house on the South Side. Its 14 large, high-ceilinged rooms are filled with obsolete instruments, antique pictures, books about music of the long ago. Inseparable bachelors, they act, talk, think alike, have identical handwriting, birthdays within 24 hours of each other (June 29 and 30). Though they have toured the whole U. S., they have never appeared in Manhattan because Manhattan concert managers insist that they hire their own hall...
...Manuel & Williamson all music written since the 18th Century has come a long way down hill. Occasionally, for relaxation, they visit the concerts of Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony, consider the ponderous 19th-Century classics they hear there as comparative fluff. Last month when they heard Harpsichordist Yella Pessl play a lick of swing on a harpsichord broadcast, they turned away their dial in horror. Asked why they prefer 18th Century to all other music, they reply: "It makes us feel spiritually spick & span...
Today there are at least twelve women's symphony orchestras* in the U. S. Oldest: the Los Angeles Women's Symphony which has been flouncing its fiddle-bows for more than 40 years. Finest: the Chicago Woman's Symphony, which last week got to the start of its 15th season...