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To the Memory of My Best and Truest Friend My Mother
Contents
It was the opening night of London’s new National Opera House and consequently an occasion. Royalty was there. The Press were there. The fashionable were there in large quantities. Even the musical, by hook and by crook, had managed to be there—mostly very high up in the final tier of seats under the roof.
The musical composition given was The Giant, a new work by