LEGACY FOR SINGER
FORMER NEW ZEALAND WOMAN ELDERLY ADMIRER'S BEQUEST (Received November 28, 8.13 p.m.) LONDON, November 28. The New Zealand soprano, Nora Dargel, for whom solicitors have been searching throughout Europe for a year to inform her that an elderly music-lover had left her a handsome legacy, has been found. An unknown admirer telephoned the solicitors after hearing her broadcast German songs on November 7. Miss Dargel refuses to give the name of her benefactor, who died in 1931. He had always been a fairy godfather, but she did not know he had left her anything, she said. [Nora Long who took the stage name of Nora Dargel, was a Wellington girl and was educated at St. Mary's Convent, where she was taught singing by Sister Mary Agnes. Miss Long early showed promise of possessing a soprano voice of unusual quality and range. She left New Zealand befora the war to complete her vocal studies in Europe and made her first appearance in grand opera in 1918. Since then she has sung in most of the opera houses in Europe.]
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21025, 29 November 1933, Page 9
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