Eileen Joyce Tours in August

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 3, 24 July 1936, Page 21

Eileen Joyce Tours in August

Young Australian Pianist Brought Over By National Broadcasting Service

NEGOTIATIONS, which began "some months ago, before Miss Eileen Joyce took up a contract with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, will bear fruit next month, when this brilliant young Australian pianist will begin a tour of the New Zealand national stations. Not-

iS Vy with sta nding unacc o untable claims to the contrary, it was through the enterprise of what was then the Broad casting Board that Dominion listeners will have this opportunity of hearing a young player of rare talent, _ who is -already well known here . through her ‘many recordings, Eileen Joyce, with her.manager, Mr. Leon White, has been touring

V4 ' Mv HH b ‘Australia in concerts and broadcast presentations under the direction of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Wherever the pianist went her reception was intensely enthusiastic, for not only were Australians meeting and hearing a great pianist, but they were proud to hail her as a fellow-Australian. Since

childhood she had not, until .the present visit, returned to her native country. At an early age she showed rare promise in piano work, and was sent to study . on the Continent, Even after ‘‘finishing’"’ there and in England she had a hard struggle, but

the turning point of her career was the occasion when she entered a gramophone company with’ £7/10/- of her last £10 ready to be paid for the privilege of making a record. She left with her £10 intact, a further cheque. in her purse, and’ a contract in her hand! The record shemade was the best-seller of the year among’ Piano recordings,

Eileen Joyce is still but. young, ¥ and has a most attractive appearance \ and personality, and when her New i Zealand tour begins-she will arrive in Wellington on August 18 and per- \) form first from 1YA-her radio i audiences here will doubtless be no {A less enthusiastic than those .in Aus- \/; tralia.