GREAT WOMAN VIOLINIST

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 596, 23 February 1929, Page 16

GREAT WOMAN VIOLINIST

TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND Some of the formost musical geniuses of the world have come to Australia and New Zealand during the last few years, but they have been men. This year music lovers will have an opportunity of hearing a young Viennese violinist who is described by London and American critics as the greatest woman violinist in the world, and also as being unique among living violinists.

Her name is Erica Morini. She is 23 years of age, and was born in Vienna. Her grandfather was Italian and her parents Viennese. She has fiddled since she was five, and came out in 1916 at Leipsig with Arthur Nikish, the great conductor, and his orchestra.

In 1926 the London “Evening News’’ wrote: “She and Heifetz are the most remarkable post-war violinists, and she has more warmth and poetry in her playing that he. She is quite young, has an immense capacity for work, and the world is at her feet.”

Since then Miss Morini has toured Europe and America every year, with extraordinary success, drawing crowded houses everywhere. She is probably the highest paid woman that has ever come to this part of the world, and her fees will bring her in over £I,OOO a week, for at least 15 weeks.

Her first concert will be given in Sydney on Easter Saturday, under the direction of E. J. Carroll.

“TWO LOVERS” NOW AT GRAND

The big attraction at the Grand Theatre this evening will be “Two Lovers,” the last United Artist picture in which Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky will appear together for, at any rate, some years. The picture combines vivid scenes of

martial history with a romantic

story of great interest, and it is possible to thrill to the visual representation of the mysterious leathermasked man whose sudden appearance to save his lord liege, the Prince of Orange, from being captured by the enemy saved Flanders from the hands of the invading Spaniards. “Blindfold,” is the second big attraction. This is a mystery thriller with many exciting scenes of police and jewel thieves, with Lois Moran, George O’Brien and Earle Fox in the leading oles.