KEPT HIS PROMISE

Chronicle (Levin), 8 January 1948, Page 4

KEPT HIS PROMISE

A Viennese girl who helped a New Zealand prisoner-of-war working on a* farm in Austria has arrived in Wellington, and is staying with the family of the soldier she assisted. She is Suzanne Gruenberg, and the prisoner she befriended is Mr. Vincent Cassin, of Wright Street, Wellington. * Grateful for the medicine and food she had sinuggled to him when he was sick and hungry, he told her to communicate with him if ever she was in need of help. She said that she never realised that she

would ever need to take his oiier, but conditions became so ba'd in Vienna • that she was compelled- to do so. Mr. Cassin then arranged her passage to New Zealand.: Miss Gruenberg appeared^in several films made in Vienna. One film, based on episodes from the life of Schubert, was directed by the wellknown Viennese, Heinz Hanusih. In another film, about Viennese artists, she played the part of an Italian girl, and sung and danced in some of the scenes. She attended a singing and dramatic school for some years, and also stu'died ballet, but singing is her main interest. "In Vienna we couldn't live without music. Our country has no future, but music is our consolation," she said.