BOY SOPRANO
DRAMATIC BROADCAST VOICE HEARD BY RELATIVES LONDON, Oct. 27 The singing of Edward Streeten, a boy soprano, broadcast from Sydney, was distinctly heard and enjoyed by his aunt, who was ill in led in a hospital in Surrey. The Daily Mail describes the scene in the hospital as one of the most dramatic in the history of broadcasting. Several of the boy's relatives had gathered in the hospital to listen. They included his white-haired grandmother, who sat at her daughter's bedside. Neither lias ever seen Edward Streeten. They listened enthralled, with tear-filled eyes, to a wonder voice coming from the other side of the world. The grandmother said: —"It has been wonderful. Edward is going to be a great singer."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21329, 2 November 1932, Page 11
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122BOY SOPRANO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21329, 2 November 1932, Page 11
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