DEATH OF A SINGER
MADAME. 13KTT Y.BROOKE.
■Mrs. Osiarles Brooke,: better, , known to tho musical world as .Madame Betty Brooke,. 1 whose recent death is. widelv regrotted, was for many years a resident of CantcrbTiiT, where her, Imsbaiui was in business.'. -.Madame Brooke, svliti had been'trained b.v Slarchesi, had a clear) full soprano voice, of most sympathetic tone, and she was always ready to give her services to concerts nnd musical "'At Homes" where- the object was a charitable owe. -'■
Last October Mrs, Brooke underwent a serious operation in Melbourne, and. accompanied by her son diaries,' went to England for further treatment, arriving in London last Fohriwry. After her arrival she gradually Ijcc-anio worse, though she nwer admitted to hpr friends the gravity of her co-mlffrotf-. Kim die<l at ].iveriwn.l on March 27, ami wa's imnVd at Bradford, whore her parents tmde. M'rs. HrooTta made fieqtieiit trips to England, Europe, and the TJnited States, and ,<>t tho time of her (Jeath had a trip for her sister and herself [a Homo.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 2
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