THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1958.
FROM RAGS TO RICHES by John Cottrell
Born
in a
tent
she rode
a
piano
to millions
MID the thick dust and decay, surrounding an old, A
broken-down shuck in the backwoods of Tasmania, stood an attractive, elegant woman. She looked around
her. Then she began to cry...
We were in a snug and charming London studio
visit
20
Eileen skm showed
such
**The nuns at Loreto
me for LWO clothed
fel and years,"
of Sir Hory Wood's Pro- menade concerts,
"But I did not schlova success quickly," she says, "Nothing has coine easily, 1
at concerts for two or cas and uppeared in alinnal every towny and cliy la Kugland. It was always cheap hotels, Bird-class travel und food,"
From 1030-45, Elleen Joyce toured the blitzed arcas of Britain with the London Phil- harmoule Orchestra. Since then
all over this has played
the Albert world, appeared at the Hall more often than any other artiste, made mure than 80 gramophone records, and built up the phenomenal repertoire
70 concertos.
She became the highest-puld plunist in Britain, earning much as £17,000-a-yeur.
did
La
to
New Interests Unhappily, success and money
not bring happiness Elleen Joyco. In 1942 her hus- band, o navul officer, was kill- ed in collon. She was left with their baby son.
But the past few years have sen
U new and radiant Eileen Joyce.
She is now happlly
married to
趋
Alm
Mann,
executive,
Christopher
and has
found
now Interests
to divert
from the
strain of
her mind
unending concentration On
inusic.
Says Miss Joyce: "10 has taken me years to find out that one can relax by doing other things."
In the past five years, she has taken courses in flower arrange- ment, cookery and tapestry- y Miss Joyce, "and I think making. She has begun to play that anything nice JE me has badminton and table-tennaM. come from there."
"Transcendently Gifted"
wrote in
liken up borse-riding, berome skiiful at archery, learned to drive, and has won her bronze and silver medals for ballroom dancing.
Now she is planning to have fying lessons,
dlver- Despite these many
works BIODE, Miss Joyce still tremendously hard and practises for at least five hours every day, often longer. "Every concert in e a matter of life and death,"
when Eileen Joyer, the extraordinary talent For music
at Loreto Ir great moment inspired to
n visit by Perry world-famous concert pins-that her father was
ramne during sert pe together £1 and buy the ist, described the
tenth Grainger, the fomposer," "After anvend Janno for her
hearing
me play, he the newspapers that I was the most transcendently gifted child' he had ever heard."
said she should go to the United States to study. to her.
Her next distinguished visitor-
Wilhelm Backhaus, the world-famous German planist. Eileen should go to so she did, after
Fas
·Elleen
Dri
her childhood home which birthday. reduced her to tears. The It was a fer-stained, yellow- which had Instrument fur- keyed room was luxuriously
thousand crichtend t
carousals nishel, tastefully decorated,
itut for Eilren, who by miners. crowded with photographs, had once seen her doll's prm zund dominated by
sold so that the family might rut, it was the rust wonderful inevitable piano,
Pat she had ever had.
The
to expden of the
There Wik
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5:900.
Yet this was the home was the must hard-working.
popil her et worth whee Bruggle to dedermined
In Leigh 2. the young girl fame and prosperity 1. perhaps teacher hid ever known.
time 10 When the muthe entered her de soled hotly a he of all It has all the info the Premiery
anuity Musical Peace
Luitel, after her money Examination, a fatty-tale
years, ten ventet podagy Muched secretly for the imunod Fant at Poorly tothed, "Interandsafar To The rans
led, mal very lonely, her astonishtnent,
passed E atly atte it med. Was to Born in a tent new Zeehan, Joker monnuation
with us :: to Australia Temaka
It was for aken
Bu hortis pot more snake thus prople, and Baleen was a sad, rugged, baie foot gul with hitle Fear!
precious few clothes
Her
Gol
EXCIPATED S
father was a bastaman
who spent two yents making
a
fruitless senzeh for gotel in
"Go it, Freckles"
At the mint critica) moabend. We career of Eileen Joyce was
vel by a "tai y godpother"-- Max Lend Andreae, # Now Tate was
Autely conscious of Zealander who had returned to shabby clothes, and of her Legag with her husband for a may and Deskles "the biggest serinį honeymoon, you ever saw.**
"Chuldrin
Ju
Eileen met the Andreacs hy be so emel," chan a! #1 Cocent They ***There
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1 at she
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Western Australia Finally, he she reminisce gave up prospecting to work in id Ragged Ellee they used to the own daughter, begght her The mines, and the family join short And If anyone called me de cent clothes, and seat her to ed him to live in a dilapidated "Freeldes I chied a thousand the great Teichnuller for coach- bungalow in the tough gold- deaths mining town of Boulder City
Miss Joyce looked sad as she remembered those days. "WEB I look back it spens that there was no sunshine in my life, only Joneliness and unpleasantriegs The Brut eight
yours especially hard. Wr were the purest of the poor and lived on scraps of food from any uncle's
"
-reichmuller laught 1 part cucumber on my face, bul
was ter 11. Those nothing." says Miss Joyce. "I freckles blighted my life. Once hwngs thought he was paid, and
shouted Co
didn't learn the wuth untit three years ag
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Freckles' lule! was playing in
a concert.
were Today, thuse freckles
In Boulder City, she played the mouth-organ to miness tu taise pennies for sixpenny pans lessans Before school cach day she would practise for as leng as possible on the battered old pano in her unete's saloon.
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Were always nany prople who wer pleased 10 charityg asset to t ehle and help Eileen in her career, some attractive woman.
because they loved! music, but talent many
They were
in Boulder City, the
*:val
determination to
of the freckled-faced Joyce girl endeared in the little girl with became so well-known that an such
Falern Fund" was launched study. to send her in the Loreta cons vent t
Perth for
The Andreaes were the mast anishing generous of all. They took her England, course. Even miners, gambling to live with them v
by the salonas, contributed part art soon she marke her debut
of their warnings fo; the find at the old Queen's Hull In one
Are you on the way
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INCREASINGLY the psycholo
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Here is a short selection of the sort of questions uskech
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the
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Inan-
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example?
5. to you prefer making decisions- (a) By yourself?
(b) in commitico?
J
(e) By consulting
opinion you respect?
whose
6. Ia atranger were to be rude la
you in publie would you--
back (a) Answer him
in similar
terms?
(b) Ignore him? (e) Call a policeman?
7. At a reception do you prefer- (4) Meeting old friends
(b) Celling to know someone new? (e) Seeking out the Important people?
B. Do you
(w) Buy your own Christinus" cards? (bi Design your own?
(e) Send your secretary out to make
11.
A selection?
Would you rather work— (a) By yourself?
(b) In
In a small group of friends? (2) In a larger cheerful group? 10. As an employer would you give
sick leave—
(a) Only with doctor's certificater the If you thought the individual
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Tel Whatever the excuse?
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in taking
your
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Arl? (c) Apologise but firmly keep your
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(a) Rather well, really?
(6) As well as mast, you suppose,
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