He Incomparable Carroll Came from Sears Roebuck and Cost About $2.50

QIOG-WHV ~nosic//w$ - (or * i SUSIE W. DOUGLAS CHESTER, S. C. Picture a tiny four-year-old girl with a little tin fiddle tucked under her chin. The fiddle he Incomparable Carroll came from Sears Roebuck and cost about $2.50. The little girl was Carroll Glenn who has become the leading woman violinist in America. The violin she now tucks under her chin is a genuine Cremona frojn which she draws the strains that make critics rave., This is the story of Carroll©s spec-1 tacular rise to fame. She was born The one she now uses bears a in Chester. South Carolina, of a parchment which reads: "This is to well known, well-to-do family, con certify that the violin sold this day sequently had no early struggles ex o Mrs. Carroll Glenn List is a cept thoss involved in learning that work of Joseph Guarn?rius del Gesu most difficult of instruments the of Cremona, it bears its original violin. No doubt tears rolled down abel dated 1743." No wonder Car- her pudgy cheeks, but her devoted roll guards it most carefully, tak- mother coaxed and encouraged her. ng it with her wherever she goes and saw that she had play time and placing it beside her chair. as w?ll as practice time. At the Musicians love thsir own instru age of six or seven she began les ments and will play upon no other. sons at the University of South The pianist. Arthur Rubenstetn, Carolina and was taken to and akes his piano by plane, but Car- rolls© instrument is more easily from Columbia for that purpose. transported. FIRST TASTE OF STAGE The marriage of Carroll Gienn Carroll©s elementary education and Eugene List was an svent of was obtained in Chester. h?r na- importance in both the musical and tiv* town. When nine or ten years the social world. List, as it will be) of age she acted in a school play. remembered, is called the "Pianilt "Mr. McGregor©s Garden." She of Potsdam." for it was there that was Mopsy, one of the little rabbits he played for the "Big Three"; who were unwelcome visitors in Truman. Churchill and Stalin. In the garden. Carrol! must even then deference to President Truman he have had a flair for the footlights. played "The Missouri Waltz", a as she mad? a convincing little selection not usually included in rabbit with a bobbing white cot-i high-class programs. Eugene List ton tail. and Carroll Gbnn are a most Ola Allison Glenn. Carroll©s distinguished "Musi-coupl*" a word lother, being a violinist herself, coined for their benefit. When they |was her first teacher and was able perform together it is indeed to supervise her later studies and something to write home about. List, conducf her caraer. ?)la~GTerin being a celebrity in his own right, | was born in York. South Carolina can fill an auditorium in any capi and is an example of what the smal tal in Europe. Carroll Glenn has [town can produce. She comes from played in many, if not all. of the the distinguished Carroll family of capitals of Europe, receiving most Maryland the family which boast enthusiastic press notices. Carroll [a signer of the Declaration of In has. of course, played in Washing dependence. Baing a person of birth ton at the White House. land education, it is natural that she Their horns in New York is a ren had high ambitions for her daugh dezvous for kindred spirits, as many ter ambitions which have been notables congregate there. It would [fully realized. be a delightful experience to listen MOVES TO NEW YORK to their conversation as well as to The family moved to New York their musical performances. | when Carroll was ?leven or twelve Carroll©s personality is most , years of age. She was immediate pleasing. She 15 pretty and as one ly enrolled in the Juilliard School writer says, "she has poise, charm of Music, the youngest pupil ever and radiant youth to offer," She [to be taken in that famous school dresses tastefully and says that a Her talent* wtre recognized there performer©s dress must "attract but and she was given the use of a never distract." She chooses simple ©very valuable violin when at the designs but beautiful fabrics; no I age of sixteen she playeri in the frills or furbelows, and little jewel Town Hall of New York. She stud ry. She waars her hair down as ied under the illustrious Belgian she says that her pyrotechnics I violinist and teacher, Edouard would bring it down anyway. A Carolina Celebrity JDethier. So much can be written about In competitions she has won al Carroll [four of the major music awards in Glenn that it cannot be the United States: the Naumberg contained in an article of limited! Foundation, tha Town Hall Endow- length. Suffice it to say that Ches [ment. ter and the State of South Carolina the one given by the National fsel honored in claiming her as a| Federation of Music Clubs and th< product. jSchubert Memorial. She substitut Herbert Hoover has said that too] ed for Fritz Kreisler on one oc much praise Is given to the aver casion and has made five solo ap age man. He thanks God that therel pearances in one season with the are persons above the average. So (Philadelphia ©Orchestra; all in all we can be thankful that Carroll ©more than 130 appearances with Glenn is as much above the aver-l I important symphony organizations age as the Cremona violin is above) in America and in Europe. Thus the little tin fiddle. it will be seen that Carroll is no Rumor has it that a blessed event) [laggard; for to rise to the heights is expected in the List family. This! she has scaled constant practice has rumor sterns to be verified by the been entailed. To get to the top fact that Carroll has cancelled her is one thing, to stay there is an- engagements until March the first. I other. Students of heredity will wonder if| Carroll©s most precious possession the first toy given to the new ar U her violin. The first little tin rival in the List family will be fiddle was replaced by larger and toy piano or a little tin fiddle. | larger ones instruments from more irces than Sears Roebuck.

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