PIANIST DISAPPEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 36, 12 February 1925, Page 5

PIANIST DISAPPEARS.

PUBLICITY STUNT SUSPECTED. NEW YORK, January 28. | The police are searching for Ethel Login ska. a noted English pianist, who disappeared just before the time it had been arranged for her to appear in a recital before a Carnegie Hall audience. The artist vanished from the front of her home while a companion was calling a taxicab.

Mieezlaw Muenz. a Polish pianist, who was among tlio audience, took her place as recitalist. The police and newspapers have been unable to decide whether Miss Leginska's disappearance is the result of temperament, or is a publicity stunt. Although the managers deny that publicity is being sought. Miss Leginska'e methods of obtaining publicity previously have been ingenious. Once she disappeared in a similar wav in London in h>oo, while en route to'a concert. She was found, days later, in Birmingham, when she said she was seized with a pudden fear that slie would be unable to play. Recently she stopped a. concert in London, and, turning to an occupant of an orchestra seat, said: "Please don t cough so much." . i