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...Betty Humby was the youngest sprig ever to win a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. At 14, she took on 30 pupils of her own. At 16 she became a piano professor, under Pianist Myra Hess at Tobias Matthay's famed London music school. Later she married an Anglican parson, the Reverend H. Cashel Thomas, now vicar of St. Philip's in London...
...also denies that Belle Starr (originally Myra Belle Shirley) committed any worse crimes than larceny and mischievous arson. She loved horses and firearms and handled them admirably, was a constant consort of outlaws, but apparently never killed anyone herself. Not even her most ardent admirers called her handsome...
Meanwhile music had been mobilized as a national morale builder. In London, shilling concerts organized by Pianist Myra Hess in the National Gallery (de nuded of its pictures) still attracted 500 to 1,500 people every noonday. Plodding old Sir Henry Wood began his 46th-and-farewell year as conductor of the Promenade Concerts of the London Symphony...
...John B. Chadwick Alice Ely, Farmington Vincent J. Charte, Jr. Edith Barnes, Middleton Charles F. Choate Josette Daley, New York William W. Cleveland Esther Stevens, Simmons John MacG. Cochrane Harriet Hayes, Simmons Richard J. Comey Posy Kent, Brookline Eliot J. Connor Phyllis M. Dunn, New Bedford Edward H. Cook Myra Martin, New York Paul W. Cook Lorraine Salsmen, Radcliffe James F. Cooney Mary Frances Northrup, Hopedale Gilbert Corwin Elaine McCune, Bradford Junior College Gerard H. Coster, Jr. Bernice Epstein, Brooklyn, N. Y. Kieran H. Culliton Jean MacLaughlin, Brimmer-May School Lewis S. Dabney Joan Edmonds, New York Willard Dalrymple Christina...
...shut up shop. But last week London music opened at a new stand, started doing a rushing business. The hall was London's venerable and massive National Gallery, whose thousands of priceless canvases were long since taken from their frames and stored "somewhere in England." Famed British Pianist Myra Hess and her teacher, 81-year-old Tobias Matthay, thought up the cheerful idea of filling the empty, tomblike gallery with popular-priced concerts for London's war-worried workers. With the help of a redheaded British adman named Ronald Jones, they got permission from His Majesty...