MUSIC IN MEXICO.
Mexicans are an enthusiastic people and a very well-known European ar'cis Xvno was playing for a large audience in an arena in Mexico knew tins, hr* ho did not expect that they would treat a violinist in the same manner as tnev do a toreador. Imagine his bewilderment when, after the first item, on to the platform came sailing hats, gloves, bracelets, flowers, knives (luckily closed), even buttons and rings. For one moment lie stood motionless, not knowing what to do. Then his manager came to him and told him quickly how to act. First he had to how deeply, then he must put all the Mats on his head and throw them hack to the owners. , The gloves be could throw hack to the tiers without nutting them on first, hut the bracelets, rings, and (lowers he could keep. After each number came + lie same demonstration, so that alter tho concert he was a very capable hat and glove thrower, without however, having obtained the extraordinary gracefulness of the toreador.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1929, Page 8
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174MUSIC IN MEXICO. Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1929, Page 8
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