HEIFETZ’S TOUR
MEMORIES BOTH GLAD AND SAD TREASURED POSSESSION LOST After journeying the world for two and a-half years, Jascha Heifetz, the noted violinist, has returned to New Tork convinced that New Zealand is the grandest country he has been in. The highest spot of his 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 drinking them until hej should return tc*i the United where he planned to keep ;he brandy for medicinal 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 another tour of Australia soon, and is thinking of cabling the hotel in Dunedin to reserve him another bottle of the Napoleon vintage.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 327, 12 April 1928, Page 14
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178HEIFETZ’S TOUR Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 327, 12 April 1928, Page 14
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