Three Eileens

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 7, 28 August 1936, Page 20

Three Eileens

PULLER RMU LLL LR TBH MMU S ERR BRB BIR: ny ite] Unusual Wellington "Get-T ogether" HE first shall be last, and the. last shall be first. ..." Strangely enough, the Eileen who was here first is the last.to: come into this short story. The second was first, and the last was second, This is how it all happened. First of all Eileen Boyd-and what a_contralto!-arrived. in New Zealand a few weeks ago.fora broadcast tour. That accounts for No. .1. Last week she atington Travel Club partly.in honour of visiting musical artists, on the morning on which Eileen Joyce-and a. world-renowned Pianist, too-arrived from . Australia. (Eileen No. 2.) No. 1 espied No. 2. (whom she hadn’t met) sitting somewhat alone in Palm Lounge of Hotel St. George, and promptly decided that a measure of companionship was in order. It wasn’t long before the two Eileens were discussing ways and means of -relieving the solitude to which Eileen Joyce seemed to be doomed at her hotel-even if she did set herself the task of practising for seven hours a day. Flat-hunting (permanent job for Wellington’s. unemployed). was fruitless. Eileen Boyd had to leave. for southern engagements on the Friday, but she knew another Eileen (No. 3) who- was really in New Zealand first,. but here she is coming in at last. It was Eileen Clark, herself a.pianist of no mean qualifications. Friday arrived, and No. 2 .met No. 3. As quickly as these things can be done, Eileen Joyce locked her grips and packed off from the hostelry to accept the invitation of the Wellington pianist. Optice and a spot ‘of home life. And one can’t resist the obvious homily: They all lived hapCINE pily ever-er-since, tended a reception by the: Well-. the midst of the reception in the" portunity for uninterrupted prac-’ ET ee TP See OD SOD SOD GD SED ERY ANT AOD PUD SUD SUP GD SOE SOY VT ME 0D S08 Gd0 SUD Td S00 97 SD Od od St) tu) Sd dS) too