MUST NOT SWIM
W.II . II W, AUSTRALIAN SINGER’S SACRIFICE LONDON, June 24. Joan Hammond, the 26-year-old Australian prima donna, who. sang so suc-cessfully-with Tauber at the-Georgiani Festival Concert at Queen’s Hall, London, revealed this.week how she.nearly, ’.vent, for a swim, but was stopped byj hor conscience just in time.. .Swim- 1 ming,. which might damage the throat
muscles, is not allowed. j To Joan Hammond, whose soprano voice is well-known in all the opera-, I houses of Europe, this ban means a' sacrifice. A champion swimmer inj Australia, also a champion goiter, she, now has no time for sports. Lawn ten-] ms and squash, at which she excelled,! have had to be abandoned, as well as: golf and swimming—for a career which ' came to her by accident. | . “Three or four years ago," she ex-! plained, “I wanted to study the violin.'; and found that in my course of study
1 had to take up two subjects. The second subject was singing'. “But now opera singing is a full- : time job. 1 have not played a round of \ igolf for six months. And 1 must not swim. t did get as far as the door- 1 ■way of a • Kensington swimming pool 1 two days ago. But my conscience 1 troubled me am! I turned away.” 1
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 July 1939, Page 10
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