A WONDERFUL GIRL VIOLINISTE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9105, 3 June 1908, Page 3

A WONDERFUL GIRL VIOLINISTE.

Queen Maud of Norway is taking a keen personal interest in the career of Miss Kathleen Parlow, the seventeen-year-old' Canadian viojiniste, who haa created such a great sensation in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, St. Petersburg and Christiania. j Misa Parlow is now considering a " tempting offer mads by an Ameri■cm syndicate, who have suggested a tour of 70 concerts in North America ut*,£2so per concert,' to be followed b* a further 60 concerts in South .America ot'the same figure, representing in all a sum of £30,000, Both King Haakon and Queen Maud have written to Mi Parlow's mother predicting that the girl violiniate will create a sensation equal to that which alia made ori the Continent, when shi npriara in London at the Queen's H ill on April 23th. Their Majesties hatfa glyen ' their patronage to the •concert, and among others who have givjn their patronage or taken suits are Christian, the Ductless of Norfolk, the Duchess of Rutland, the Djchess of .Westminster, Lord Strathcortu, Lord Desbor•ongh, and Countess Bathurst. Miss Parlow, as a mero child, was fortunate enough to come under the aiothe of Dr. Grosz, who was so impressed by her remarkable talent thut lie took her to St. Petersburg- to see the great Profjssor Auer. That was about five years ago an I the professor, who has never , miie any charge for his tuition, de-l clared in Berlin recently that his I young pupil was one of ihe greatest j violinists of the last twer\ty-five jaia Ebr triumphant Continental .tsur, which began in September Inst, terminated at Christiania, whe-e Q.i'ien Maud, after hearing her play, present h 1 to her a diamond ;»iendant. Th@ people of Christiania were so with the talent of the' violiniate that they subscribed £||io and bought her a Guarnwhich had belonged to Viotti. 1