Status Improving
Sir Malcolm Sargent thinks his status is improving. He explained this at yesterday's civic reception to him and the Victoria State Symphony Orchestra. He told the Mayor (Mr G. Manning), councillors, and members of the public that he felt three great honours had been bestowed on him during his lifetime. “The first was during the war when my name was mentioned several times by Lord Haw Haw,” he said, “The second was after the war when I was
toid that my name was in Hitler’s black book—the book in which he had the names of all who were to be shot when he invaded England. “The greatest honour of all, though, was paid me last year by my eight-year-old godchild after she had attended her •final night of the proms’ concert. The scene at the end apparently impressed her greatly for as we drove home she remarked: ‘There was so much screaming you might almost be a Beatle’.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30682, 23 February 1965, Page 1
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