A STREET MUSICIAN
DEATH OF ARTHUR RIGDEN PLAYED A GENUINE " STRAD." Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 7. (Received May 8, at 10.5 a.m.) The king of London’s street’s musicians, Arthur William Rigdeu, recently died. A woman friend says that when times were good lligden made £4,000 a year. He started life as a cathedral organist and afterwards played a genuine Stradivarius violin in the London streets. He was most disappointed by his hopeless light for a pension for wounds received at Ypres. Lately he played in the streets from an invalid chair. He was a member of the Fulham Chamber of Commerce. Once he had a transport business in London, and .was a moneylender. He fought in the Boxer rising and in the Boer and Great Wars. He travelled the world thi-ico.
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Evening Star, Issue 21714, 8 May 1934, Page 7
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132A STREET MUSICIAN Evening Star, Issue 21714, 8 May 1934, Page 7
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