Description: STORAGE P27 F P27F INVITATION From Peter Richard Heydon CBE Australian ambassador to Brazil (9 September 1913 – 15 May 1971) was an Australian public servant, policymaker, and diplomat. From 1961 to 1971 he was Secretary of the Department of Immigration. Life and careerPeter Heydon was born in Croydon, Sydney, on 9 September 1913.[1] He was educated at Fort Street Boys' High School, and in 1936 joined the Commonwealth Public Service in the Department of External Affairs,[1][2] soon after having been admitted to the NSW bar.[3] In 1942, Heydon married Muriel Naomi Slater, a Canadian who had been his personal assistant during his appointment to the staff of Richard Casey in Washington.[1] In a eulogy after Heydon's death in 1971, Finlay Crisp described the couple's relationship as having "a tempo, a temper and a tone".[4] From 1943 to 1944, Heydon served with the Australian legation to the Soviet Union which had just opened at the wartime capital of Kuibyshev.[1] Between May and September 1950, Heydon was chargé d'affaires in charge of the Australian Embassy in the Netherlands.[5] He was soon after appointed Minister to Brazil, serving until 1953.[6] Between 1953 and 1955, Heydon was High Commissioner to New Zealand.[7][8] He was subsequently appointed High Commissioner to India, serving in that position until 1958.[9] From 1961 until his death in 1971, Heydon was Secretary of the Department of Immigration.[10] He died of a heart attack on 15 May 1971,[1] and was remembered by the prime minister, William McMahon, as one of the best-liked and respected public servants in Canberra.[11] He was survived by his wife, Lady Heydon, and three children – two daughters and a son, John Dyson Heydon, who was later made a judge of the High Court of Australia.[4] Eileen Alannah Joyce CMG (died 25 March 1991) was an Australian pianist whose career spanned more than 30 years. She lived in England in her adult years. Her recordings made her popular in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly during World War II. At her zenith she was compared in popular esteem with Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn.[1] When she played in Berlin in 1947 with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, an eminent German critic classed her with Clara Schumann, Sophie Menter and Teresa Carreño.[2] When she performed in the United States in 1950, Irving Kolodin called her "the world's greatest unknown pianist".[3] She became even better known during the 1950s, when she played 50 recitals a year in London alone, which were always sold out. She also performed a series of "Marathon Concerts", playing as many as four concertos in a single evening. Her Mozart was described as "of impeccable taste and feeling", she was a Bach player "of commanding authority", and "a Lisztian of both poetry and bravura".[3] Her playing of the second movement of Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto in the films Brief Encounter and The Seventh Veil (both 1945) helped popularise the work. A 1950 biography of Joyce's early life became a best-seller and was translated into various languages.[2] A feature film, Wherever She Goes (1951), was based on the book, but was much less successful. Despite her fame, her name slipped from public sight after her retirement in the early 1960s.
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Type: Ephemera
Era: 1951-Now
Country/Region of Manufacture: Brazil
