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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1687, 29 June 1904, Page 75 (Supplement)

a new Madame S'ans-Gene lias been introduced to London in tlxe person oc Mies Marie Lloyd. Tlio “new song scena at the Oxford which gives scope for tin, imnersonation consists of a song telling tiie familiar story of the fair blanchisseuse who saved the’Great Napoleon in his early days as a young Corsican artilleryman, and meeting him years after Emperor in the Tuileries, reminded him of her old kindness to win from him the life of a prisoner. This ballad Miss sings for the first half garbed as a blanchisseuse in a laundry, for the second half as a fine lady of the Empire in the throne room of the Tuileries, where the audience is allowed to see a mute Napoleon, the words of the song, it must be confessed did not offer the best of opportunities for dramatic display, but Miss Mane Lloyd contrived to put into her singing a number of quaint and ingenious touches of character.