The Cherniavskys and Their Brides

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 242, 3 January 1928, Page 8

The Cherniavskys and Their Brides

“WON’T BE SEPARATED !*

LEO IN AUCKLAND

There is no necessity to introduce the Cherniavsky brothers—they are to well known to Aucklanders for that.

Leo, accompanied by his Canadian bride—they have not yet been married two years—arrived in Auckland yesterday by the Niagara.

looking the picture of health, even if a little more stout than when he was last here nearly five years ago. The musician is keenly looking forward to the commencement of his New Zealand tour. It will commence at Wellington on February 1. TAN and Michel, with their Canadian wives, will arrive in Auckland by the Aorangi on her next trip south. Leo and Mrs. Leo are off to Sydney for a. short holiday before the tour of New Zealand and Australia commences. Thirty-one concerts in six weeks will keep the brothers busily engaged while they are in New Zealand. All these years the Cherniavsky brothers have been together. As Mrs. Leo said, smilingly, “not even their wives can part them.” COMBINATION’S SECRET? “There is no secret!” said Leo very decidedly, “just commonsense, and we are very fortunate inasmuch as w*e have a community of interests. We live together. We work together. We play together.” The Cherniavskys have just concluded a tour of Mexico. Business was so tempting that Jascha Heifetz, whom they met in Los Angeles, packed his fiddles the other day and set out for the land of revolutions. Despite their inharmonious relations one with another, the Mexicans are very fond of music. The fact that Mexico City was more or less involved in an insurrection did not prevent its citizens from buying every available seat at the Cherniavskys’ concert prior to the arrival of the artists. Then Leo had a brief three days in his London home—Mrs. Leo w r as more fortunate, as she had a month there—and trunks were packed for America. Leo Cherniavsky has a bone to pick with New Zealanders. He says that we do not talk enough about ourselves. NEW ZEALAND’S PUBLICITY “I feel certain that if Americans knew more about New Zealand, many of them would visit this beautiful little country. I know of no country in the world which has such a variety of scenery to offer. Many of them are coming to Honolulu nowadays, and it is not much farther on here.” Despite our Government Publicity Office, which, said the artist, had certainly done something in the way of moving picture propaganda, Americans knew practically nothing about New Zealand. We should send more written propaganda—descriptive booklets and that kind of information —rather than rely so much on the films. “We came here as boys,” he saic\ “and I have always had a real affection for the country. Apart from the appeal of New Zealand’s beauty there is a genuineness about the people that I have always liked. We are all keenly looking forward to seeing New Zealand again. After New Zealand and Australia, where incidentally, Leo Cherniavsky intends making some gramophone records, the brothers will tour South Africa and return by that route to England.