FAMOUS VIOLINIST.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19765, 21 December 1935, Page 19 (Supplement)

FAMOUS VIOLINIST.

TO RETIRE FOR TWO YEARS. YEHUDI MENUHIN’S PLANS. A young man, not yet 19, with a fair moustache, an American accent, and a colossal income recently talked in London of his impending retirement. His name is Yehudi Menuhin. Yehudi has just fiddled his way for 50,000 miles across the world. In the past year he has given 100 concerts in 63 cities and thirteen countries, including the United States, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, and South AfricaIt was a triumphal tour. Now, at the peak of his fame and success, he is to retire —for two years. His father, Mos'he, has bought a 100-acre estate in the mountains ten miles from San Francisco. The plans, evolved by a negro architect, await final approval in Paris. There is a three-mile private road, a sumptuous swimming-pool, and “ a Chinese wall built all round to give us privacy.” Wants to Develop Inner Self. There Yehudi will stay for two years of “ study, contemplation, and greater development.” He wants to “broaden and deepen” his music. He has “ab-

sorbed contacts from outside; now I want to develop my inner self. I feel that far greater things still Tie dormant within me.” After two hours in London Yehudi left, with his father, mother, and sisters, Hephzibah and Yalta, for Paris, to give a concert. Then he was to go to Holland, return for an Albert Hall concert, then to Spain, Portugal, and Italy. His final appearance before the retirement will be with Hephzibah at the Queen’s Hall, London, on January 14 .