BLIND WOMAN
POST IN OPERA BEAUTIFUL VOICE LONDON, July 15. A blind girl, 26-year-old Miss Sabeston. Walker, will play the part of a blind girl in Mackenzie's opera "The Cricket on the Hearth" at the Seala Theatre to-night. Miss "Walker lives at Bexley Heath. It will bo her first appearance in opera, and she is thrilled at the prospect. She has a beautiful soprano voice, but it will not be her. voice alone she will rely upon —she will act the part. Miss Walker said: "Most people think that the part-of a Dlmd girl on the stage does not call for any acting. That is altogether, wrong, i shall be acting, all. the time I am on the stage—really iiving the role othe blind girl 'Bertha.' "I believe I am able to interpre the character Dickens created in In novel, because of my own blindness. '" Miss Walker began her musieai career as a pianist. She is also a composer, but opera was always he ambition.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19127, 23 September 1936, Page 14
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