"DOLLAR PRINCESS" KISSEL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2407, 12 March 1915, Page 6

"DOLLAR PRINCESS" KISSEL

THE AUDACIOUS WOUNDED GUNNER. Amusing little stories of the cheer* fulness of the wounded in France are related ny Mme. Alice O'Brien, the operatic singer of Covent Garden and the Opera Comique, Paris, who is serving as a French Red Cross nurse in a hospital in Paris, in tho following letter to her sister in the south of England:—

"The other day I sang for about 100 English. At my departure they gave me three cheers, and by chance I stopped to thank them and say 'Good night' just. Underneath a bunch of mistletoe. Near me was a huge artilleryman and not far off a Yorkshir® lad. who said to the other, !Why don't you kiss her, mon—she's under the mistletoe?'

"The R.A. promptly did. much to my confusion aud the joy or the British hundred. , After this I departed quick, ly for fear the 99 . might follow suit I It was at this concert that a boy of twenty, with one leg amputated and , with one arm paralysed, asked, me to hold his healthy arm while tie sang 'Your King , and Country Want You.' It was splendid and pathetic at the . same time. • " "I also sang at one of the biggest French hospitals.' As I was going off a great' Tirailleur Senegalais, as black as one's shoe, solemnly presented me with two flowers, afterwards declaring that he wouldn't mind buying me for , his wife and even paying as much as , 250fr. (£10) for that luxury I" Mme. Alice O'Brien played the heroine of "The Dollar Princess" at Daly's Theatre while Miss Lily Elsie ■was taking a rest in 1910 and gained' an instant success.