Search Results

“... his Hindemith theme as a tone-row lacking a note), and rich in appendices. Humphrey Burton’s and Maureen Murray’s stylishly informative life-in-pictures is pure celebration, and it’s fascinating to follow the unlikely but unwinding road that leads from Werneth to Oxford to Chelsea, Ischia and Grand Old Sod-dom. Walton’s sheer luck is apparent, as ...”

“... letter of all was written by Herma Falletisch, a young woman in South Africa, to her fiancé Ian Murray, an artillery gunner in a camp north of Genoa. Herma was probably eighteen or nineteen, and Ian in his mid-twenties. She had received a letter from him calling off their engagement, and wrote back to ask that he reconsider – though she insisted that she ...”

“... whose ‘preciosity sold quite well’. In Sydney she set up house with the photographer Alec Murray and a gaggle of painters and sculptors; they gave parties at which Marie Rambert turned cartwheels; they dreamed of going to Europe. In London her first new friend was the photographer Eric Deakin, who had just been sacked by Vogue for curtseying to Cecil ...”