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...Marshal of the Royal Air Force; Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague ("Boom") Trenchard, Baron Trenchard of Wolfeton, London Police Commissioner from 1931 to 1935, to be a viscount; Miss Jackson, private secretary to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's wife, Lucy, to be an officer. Pianist Myra Hess to be a Commander, oldtime Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst to be a Dame Commander, of the Order of the British Empire...
...orchestra has grown fast. First winter there were 87 guarantors. Now there are 1,600. First concerts had programs which were not too difficult to play, easy to digest. Conductor Kindler has waxed bolder as his audiences waxed larger, plans for this season a rich Brahms festival with Pianist Myra Hess...
...road. José Iturbi, the elfin little Spaniard who sometimes conducts, was working his way up the Pacific Coast. In Manhattan such steady oldtimers as Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch were drawing their own faithful audiences. Artur Schnabel was doubling his success of last season. In Detroit Myra Hess, greatest of women pianists, began a tour of 40 concerts. Ignace Jan Paderewski, at 74 the world's best-selling pianist, is spending the winter in his villa on Lake Geneva but he hints at a U. S. tour for next year...
...next season the Slenczynskis will be free to retire their prodigy daughter. Impressible Ruth favors concerts for three months a year at least. Next year's performances will earn her $2,500 apiece, a fatter fee than is asked by such adult artists as José Iturbi, Myra Hess, Vladimir Horowitz, Josef Hofmann...
Critics have little faith in women pianists but in the twelve years she has been playing in the U. S. Myra Hess has lived down the handicap. With her there is no pose, no affectation, no sentimentality. She comes on the stage usually in a severe black velvet dress, sits down calmly and plays Bach so that the audience shouts for more. She plays Beethoven with the stride and strength of a man. Her Brahms and Schumann are expertly tender. Evidence of Hess's powers are the houses she draws. During Depression when most audiences have dwindled hers have...