Personal

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Personal

Miss MARJORIB CHAPMAN, ’cellist of the 83YA Studio Octet, com-. menced study of the pianoforte at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Christchurch, in 1920, later continuing under Mr. Howard Moody. Her study of the ‘eello began in April, 1922, under Herr Zimmerman, joining in a few months’ time Miss Flint’s juvenile orchestra. In 1924 she became a member of the Christchurch Orchestral Society, afterward playing in the orchestra at the Crystal Palace and Civic. Theatres. In 1925 she became a pupil under her present teacher, Mr. Harold Beck. vss THELMA CUSACK, another member of the 3YA Studio Octet, siidied the piano for a number of

years from Miss F. Tindell, and then later fromthe Misses © Shillito. Subsequently she studied the violin, first from Miss Hood and _ then from Mrs. Harold Beck. Miss Cusack won various prizes for both piano and violin playing at the Christchurch Competitions in. replayed in the Cryseent years. She

tal Palace Orchestra until the advent of the: talkies.