SINGERS WARNED
SEAF.CH FOR FAME AT HOME. ESSENTIALS FOB SUCCESS LONDON. Nth April. •['he A list nil in 11 Singer. Mis.- Evelyn Seotnev. iii mi article ill the "Daily \>«s," quote- a conversation -he had in New York with the late Enrico Caruso. He said that equal factors in a singer';- fame were voice, a capacity for painstaking training. technique, ~ersi,nalitv. and luck. Mi»s Sc.tuey siivß the voice of an angel, without a stagis presence, dues not confer the faintest hope of success. "Stage presence i- a mosl elusive ~ualilv\ enabling you to carry all before you to-day., and deserting you tomorrow," -he says. -Luck is indefinable. Ymi must take a "ambler's chance. It is useless for colonial singers to come, to London un-le-s they have not only experience and cverv natural gift of the gods oi song. but a measure of success behind them. Those who come to London unknown remain unknown."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 April 1928, Page 10
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153SINGERS WARNED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 April 1928, Page 10
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