CLARA BUTT’S FIRST SONG.
Attending the jubilee celebrations at Redcliff Crescent Chapel, Bristol, where she was a Sunday school pupil in childhood, Dame Clara Butt said she made her first appearance in public in that schoolroom at a concert, states an English daily. “It was not a very happy beginning,” she said. “I had to walk the whole length of the schoolroom to the platform and I had on a pair of boots that squeaked, and when I reachthe platform my poor little voice was very weak. “I dreaded my second song, but out of kindness of heart the people applauded, and I arrived at the platform without having heard a single squeak, so I sang with my heart in my voice instead of in my boots.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 14
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127CLARA BUTT’S FIRST SONG. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 14
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