FROM THE STRAD 1929 VOL 40 NO.475
For a concert artist there is apparently a fascination of some sort about a South African tour that creates a longing to return for another such visit. Miss Marie Hall fell so completely under this spell that already she has made three concert tours there. She left England at the beginning of last April and did not land back until the very end of July. Besides making the long double journey she managed to fit in nearly fifty concerts, together with many important social functions, being feted on all sides. In a chat with our representative since her return she said:— “I could not possibly have done all that has been done there if I had not frankly accepted the necessity of long hours, hard work, and rush, morning, noon and night. The social life of South Africa is one of its features. One has receptions and festivities to attend before and after concerts; but they are very charming for the artist, and I felt that I met heaps of just the people one likes to know.