YOUNG AUSTRALIAN VIOLINIST

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 27 January 1923, Page 16

YOUNG AUSTRALIAN VIOLINIST

Miss Ceoile Stevens, a young 'Australian violinist, using i, genuiij© Nicholas Amati violin over 300 years old, bis been r>foyta? to vast audiences iii Ainerioa through the' me'diufn of a radio telephone broadcasting system. It is c'aloitlated (Bays the Sydney "ithrily Telegraph") that by means of this system she ones' played to. millions of l&teiiers. Born in Sydney, Miss Stevens received: her first tuition, in. the Convent b;_ Mercy,-- Parramatta. She secured a kmoiarship entitling her to three years' iree tiiitiqn. at, the Royal Academy; London, which former special ability.-was extended to four, years. A.t ttie academy fcnb becamo a< iicbntiaie of tiie R.A.Mparing tha war she origagefl in patriotio Work, giving recitals for wounded soldiers throughout the United Kingdom, associated with Body Maud Stanley, Lady DudJoy, the Duke of Newcastle, and others. 5n 1917 she played, before Princess Mary at the Endcll f street Hospital. London. Same of her rscitals were on tH© sani&bill jiritii air-Georfre Alexander, Vesta Tilky, Eiten Terry, and Harry Lauder. 'ITho Amati violra haa been iii hei' family for ovei" half a century, and is valued a.t 40,000 dollars. With this instrument she has lately' played for art-producing records, aad for a radio broadcasting instrument. She \yas playing- at .a private "at ho.-no" vfh&a Nora Bay?.s,( an eminent Aimerican. artist, heard hor, and fbrthwilh gave her 'a twelve months' contract. Miss Stevens's hair fbraier'ly reached to her waist, bat during her Spy hi Aoademy torin, as she was rfdihff onaLoa<ion bus, accompanied by her sister, it was quietly cut off and stolen by someone.sittin.? <3irectly behind her, aM so. expertly that it was not till ehe r«ach«<3 tho wnfl«my Wiiit sl\a }iwl bfausht i»)ne to