RARE OLD BRANDY

Shannon News, 17 April 1928, Page 4

RARE OLD BRANDY

ANEXPERIENCE OF HEIFETZ.

After journeying the world for two and a-half years, Jascha Heifetz, the noted violinist, has returned to New York convinced that Australia is the grandest country he has been in (says a cable to the Sydney 'Sun’). The highest spot of his Australasian visit- came in Dunedin, where Heifetz found two bottles of Napoleon 1811 brandy displayed in his hotel. Hardly daring to believe his dazzled eyes, he purchased the bottles at five guineas apiece and nobly refrained from drink' ing them until he should return to the United States, where he planned to keep brandy for mecicinal purposes. Not believing that the American authorities would interfere, with such a precious antique, Heifetz took the bottles ashore at Honolulu in a little package under his arm. His distress was boundless—he tore his treasured hair with rage—because the Prohibition authorities made him pour the brandy down a sink.

Heifetz hopes to return for anothet tour of Australia soon, and is thinking of cabling the Dunedin hotel t® reserve him another bottle of the Napoleon vintage.