by ADELA VERNE
Adela Verne , the youngest of three talented sisters, was born in Southampton. She showed early gifts as a musician, playing a Bach fugue at the ago of five. She was a pupil, first of her sister Mathilde, who was herself a pupil of Clara Schumann , and then of Paderewski. She has made extensive tours all over the world as a brilliant soloist, and has in later years been active as a teacher in the well-known Kensington school of pianoforte playing started by her sister in 1909.