Evening star., 1928-12-27
Father Will Stand
AS Violin Prodigy
Appears in Concert
S. r. o. Sign Creets Par
ent of Boy Whose Great
ness Is Unknown to Him.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 27.--Yehudi
Menuhin, II years old, of San Fran
cisco, will appear as soloist tonight
with the New York Philharmonic SYM
phony Orchestra, playing the Tchaikow-
sky concerto for the violin. And some
where in the back of Carnegie Hall
Yehudis father will be standing up
with lot of other music lovers who
canot get tickets, as every seat was sold
weeks ago.
After ten months retirement-taken
in order that Yehudi might get away
| from crowds and be ''just boy for a
while-he has again come out of the
| West with his fiddle under his arm.
| And New York has already paid down
thousands of dollars to hear him.
Yehudi cannot even get passes for his
| friends into the concert tonight.
Concert Tour Limited.
| When Yehudi made his debut here a
! year ago he was given a welcome such
as few musicians ever get. 1t equaled
that of Jascha Heifetz ten years ago
Before that he had made sensational
| debut in Paris. He is now starting on
an American and European tour, but
he will play only about ten times. His
parents have set the limit. 1t is
rumored that his managers have had to
turn down 100000 worth of business
But after he has played his ten con-
certs, Yehudi will go back to San Fran
cisco and his algebra and will not play
again in public for at least seven
months.
Yehudi is hero in New York. and
New York loves to make fuss over her
heroes. But she cannot make a fuss
over .Yehudi. For instance, after that
concert tonight, Yehudi and his father
will go straight back to their hotel
without the boys having met single
admirer. A few old friends, very few,
will accompany them, and everybody
will have ice cream. That will be
real party for Yehudi.
Yehudi and his father arrived in New
York last Friday. On Saturday La
Argentina, the Spanish dancer-who is
another of New York's idols just now
sent him tickets to her recital Yehudi
didn't go. He had cold, and anyway
he is not permitted to stay up late un-
less he is playing in public. So last
night La Argentina journeyed from the
Savoy-Plaza on Fifth avenue to a family
hotel in the West 80's-to have dinner
with Yehudi Menuhin.
Yehudi Menuhin may be a musical
sensation, but he is not going to be a
spQilt child prodigy" Not if his father
and mother-who not so many years ago
were struggling to work their way
through New York University so they
could teach school-can help it.
The boy has been interviewed many
times. But he didn't know it. Re-
porters we're introduced as friends of
his parents and they were requested
to omit all fattery. He has never read
a word of all the reviews and stories
that have been printed about him.
I'VE just keep the papers out of his
way, that's ALL his father said. "And
SO far he has never shown any inter-
est"
Visited by Queen.
After his debut in Paris, when he
was 10, Yehudi spent a Summer with
his parents and his little sisters in
Rumania, where one of his teachers
lived. Queen Marie sent for him to
go to the palace and play for her. On
behalf of Yehudi, his parents respect
fully declined. They invited the Queen
to tea in their apartment, politely re-
questing that there be no pomp or
glitter.
"She was wonderful about it," Yehu-
dis father said, "she came, and Yehudi
played for her. Later she sent him
book, in which she had written
ITO Yehudi-Hoping he will be
nicer to me in America than he was
in Rumania.'"