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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 5211, 27 February 1904, Page 15

The little French lady. Mile. Dutrien. who is “Flying the Flume” twice a day to the amazement of visitor's to the Crystal Palace, toldsomething of her story to a fellow-traveller from Paris. When sho first appeared in public she was some thousands of pounds in debt —representing the expenditure on a long series of very eostoly expcr.i.mente. Then the,re was fcho difficulty of finding a place of large enough for her performance, a difficulty which create* itself anew as often as Mile. Dutrien is passing from one city to another. Thus, before accepting the terms offered her by the Crystal Palace management. she had to reject the overtures of two London musfo halls, neither of which had a stage big enough for her requirements. Sho was performing in Berlin the other day, anti will visit America when she bos exhausted Europe. She does net at all like travelling, for she goes unaccompanied, and speaks no language hut her own. At the end of two years madcrao'se! If hopes to have made enough to retire on. Her salary is close 'on £SOO a week, but for this sho plays with death twice every day. that sho performs.