FAMOUS SINGER DEAD
STREET CHARITY WORK Eugenie Buffet, the singer of popular songs, who 40 years ago was one of the stars of the Parisian cafe-concerts, recently died at the age of 68. She sang about the man and woman m the street, their simple pleasures and their trials. Eugenie was a servant girl in Algeria when she discovered the gift for singing which was to make her one of the bestknown artists in Paris. She died poor, for though in her time she had been able to command large fees, she was always generous. During the war Eugenie went as near as she was allowed to the front line, from the Yser to Verdun, to sing to the soldiers and the wounded in hospitals. Whenever she heard of a family or charitable cause in distress she would go singin<* in the streets to help, and the financial results from such help were invariably satisfactory. Shortly before she died this charming woman said to one of her nurses: " I have been singing all my life; I shall sing with my last breath."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22259, 11 May 1934, Page 16
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