CHILD PRODIGY
;- ■ EARNING £25 A . WEEK. *■ ; *; : ' • The, singing of a pretty, , twelve-year-old girl named Mary Hagan th’v.iiled 17C{) people at the Victoria. Palace London, recently. She .was . earning pennies three weeks , previously,’i.•singing to.’ the theatre queues in ’Newcastle. 'Now., she has started to . .earn £2sa week,' and is hooked until ,neA; September.’" • .'-'ji--1 .Thi'3i child' .-noiie of 'the -usual,'fail.' ings of . infant; prodigies. •: Shevis.C. hot nervous, ’nor is ' She''simpering; or 'afvfected! • .Her; . rang. anther ;bear--Ing-Avas doihpietely. selftassured. '.Her gjrasp- ofstage-craff ''is, ‘ stated .by ; • d critic ‘.to ’»be instinctive ■ arid -genuine. She is a -born •: performer. - ' - She has two ambitions, she says. One is to send “thousands, of' pounds’’ home to lief fdt/her ahd mother, who are out ,0f work*. ' THA second-is td sing- to PrinCes Elizabeth, She' begail -tits firs'' of these during the week-end, •'then she sent home 50s. ' . '
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1932, Page 7
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140CHILD PRODIGY Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1932, Page 7
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