MARIE HALL IN AMERICA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 930, 24 September 1910, Page 5

MARIE HALL IN AMERICA.

Miss Mario Hall, the famous violinist, has just completed. arrangements for a tour through South Africa, at a guarantee of £10,000, which is the largest over offered^to a violinist (says M.A.I 5 .). Miss Hall, strange to say, had no proper tuition as a violinist when a .child,;.'and her first money was made by playing in the streets for 'pence. One day, when; she was only fifteen, a gentleman, attracted, by her "playing, became interested in her, and arranged that she should .go to LondonVto'compete for a 'Wesseley Scholarship at the Hoyal Academy of. Music. Marie won the• scholarship easily, but, having''no ■funds to live on. in London, back to tho pavement edge she had to go.' ;-. •■ One night she wont to a concert hall where Kubelik was playing, and," after the performance, she went up'to him and asked if he; would hear her play.

Greatly to her surpriso he consented, and, 'after hearing her performance, ho was so enraptured by -licr renderings that ho insisted on sending tor to his j own master, Sevcik, to bo trained into a professional violinist. .Ho quickly put her'on the right road towards a successful career, and now her. fame is world-wide. i

Miss Hall had many' amusing experiences'during her recent tour in America, but what impressed her most was the resourcefulness of the Yankee journalists. One of these gentlemen inquired of her when sho landed as to her views on the chewing gum habit. .Miss Hall, nover having chewed gum in her life, said sho didn't know. Imagine her surprise when next morning his paper camo out with the statement that Miss Hall; had chewed glim all her', life, and ''thought :it:;was/'the,-finest othirigf for;-the iybic^-■ahdi■tiirpat/:' ; v;:^ : ■ ,; .y;'-;'^v'■' i ■'^''■^^ ; '\ ivAs a^result,; : she -was ; bombarded;;at her hotel ; by men: who wanted her to •buy .chewing; gum. Sample .packets 'flowed ■' in 5 upon her .by every,_; post,' and firms from, all' over; the, continent.;sent offers' of large quantities Tof..' . gum-fat'. half-price : ,if ; she would:announce from"-thpi platform;..that it .was their particular .brand thatshepatfonised. 1 .'■: -