KREISLER'S FIND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 5

KREISLER'S FIND.

A NEW VIOLINIST. GIRL HEARD IN DUBLIN STREET. (Special.—By Air Mall.) LONDON, December 18. Lillian McEvoy had a great ambition. She wanted to become a famous violinst. She got a job with an Irish! touring theatrical company, left her home in County Meath, starting, she thought, on the road to success. Hard woFE on tour, playing in the orchestra pit, doubling small parts on the stage, living in cheap lodgings, disillusioned her. She left the company and decided to play her violin in the streets of Dublin. She stood in the gutter outside the Grafton Theatre. Few noticed her, fewer gave her coppers. She went to her lodgings every night and cried herself to sleep. One night a man stopped and listened. He came again next night. And again. He spoke to her at last, introduced himself. He, too, was a violinist. He was playing inside the theatre where Lillian had her pitch. His name, he said, was Fritz Kreisler. The greatest violinist in the world had found a new protege. Lillian said afterwards: "He told me that 1 was too good a violinist to play in the street.. I was given a contract to play there the following week." Next week Lillian's ambition will be near to realisation. She has been engaged-to* play- in-London. j