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Dame Myra Hess was among the best-known & most beloved of Uk pianists. She was a pupil of Julian Pascal and Orlando Morgan. At 12 she gained a scholarship towards the Royal Academy of Music and became a pupil of Tobias Matthay, whom she seen as her primary instructor. She …

b. Phyllis Constance Haddie Dones, 15 August 1890, London, Britain, d. 27 Apr 1975, Brighton, East Sussex, Britain. With old sister, Zena Dare (b. Zena Dones, 4 Feb 1887, London, Britain, d. 11 March 1975, London, Britain), Phyllis created an take action while these were extremely youthful. Her stage debut …

Stanley Holloway was an accomplished vocalist and acting professional, a disarmingly funny comedian, and an excellent monologist. The boy of the lawyer’s clerk, he was created Stanley Augustus Holloway in London’s East End on Oct 1, 1890. After employed in the office of the fish marketplace in Billingsgate, the lad …