OPERA STAR NOW SELLS FISH
TENOR DRIVES A TAXI , ITALIANS STAY IN AUSTRALIA The visit of the Gonsalez opera company under the Fuller management seems to have increased the population of Australia more than any other theatrical venture, writes a correspondent to the Sydney “Bulletin.” One of its baritones now serves fish over a counter in Fitzroy and a tenor drives a taxicab in Sydney. I was passing a seaside store in Victoria with a friend the other day when a very beautiful voice singing one of Gilda’s arias from “Rigoletto” was wafted through a fly-net. My friend said it was a loud speaker but I bet him it was human. And so it proved. The owner was a pretty little 18-year-old Italian maiden who had entered domestic service, and whom I-had last seen across the footlights. Many of the company were antiFascists, which may account for their non-return to Italy.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 14 June 1930, Page 9
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