Born: 20 September 1890, Canada
Died: 19 August 1963
Country most active: International
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women, written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company.
Kathleen Parlow, a British violinist, born at Calgary, Canada. She received her first musical instruction at San Francisco from Holmes, an English Violinist. Her progress was so rapid that in 1905 he took her to London and exhibited her as a prodigy. Later she studied with Auer in St. Petersburg, and made her début as an artist in the Russian capital in 1908. Her success was overwhelming.