DRESS IGNITES.
ROSINA BUCKMAN HAS LUCKY ESCAPE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Feb. 17. ' ’While playing “Isolde’’ at the Liverpool Olympia, Aliss Rosina Buckman, the New Zealand singer, was waving « torch as a signal to Tristan, when her silk dress ignited. Luckily she. was near the wings and an attendant enveloped her in a wrapper and suppressed the flames.
The dress was destroyed, but Aliss Ruckman was not burned. It was a miracle that she wins not burned to death before the audience.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 February 1925, Page 5
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82DRESS IGNITES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 February 1925, Page 5
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