Honouring the Arts
AMES of musicians and entertainers, well known to New Zealand radio listeners, were in the British Birthday Honours List last June, including Solomon, the pianist now in New Zealand, "Gert and Daisy" (Elsie and Doris Waters), and George Formby. The Manchester Guardian Weekly’s "London Letter" remarked that the arts did better in the Birthday Honours than they did. in the New Year list, and reported that the C.B.E. had been conferred on "Fougasse" (Cyril Kenneth Bird) who made. England laugh at the discomforts of war travel; on "James Bridie" (Dr. Osborne Henry Mayor), Jelly d’Aranyi (the violinist), Solomon and Edward Bawden, war artist. George Formby, Joyce Grenfell and Elsie and Doris Waters became O.B.E.’s.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 381, 11 October 1946, Page 30
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117Honouring the Arts New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 381, 11 October 1946, Page 30
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