THE REVERSES OP AN ARTISTE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 68, 21 March 1914, Page 10

THE REVERSES OP AN ARTISTE.

A pathetic story of the descent to poverty and nights' on the Embankment of Mr. Richard Green, the one'time well-known baritone opera singer, was related at the Surbiton Coroner's Court, London. Mr. Green threw himself in front of an express train, and was killed. The decline of his fortunes was sympathetically described by Mr. Solomon, a singer, who said Mr. Green had sung in some of the best operas and musical plays. He had sung with Mme. Patti and Mme. Melba at Covent Garden. "He has told me," the witness added, "that he walked his feet off looking

for engagements, and that sometimes he was driven to sleeping on the Thames Embankment." Witness added that he once found Green without enough to pay for a shave, and said to him : "You need not sleep on the Embankment any longer. Come and stay with me," and ho took him to his house at Surbiton, where he had been living for the past fivo or six months. _A S! io,^'. ll i. m- B _a^ o--Q l'een g QM chance

of singing tor ono of Mr. George Dances companies, but when he wae tried He could not get up to the top G. The Coroner : Ihere are a good many who can't take the top G Witness : I did not think he ?a\ig bo badly. ""ws" "1L" '—**

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