SINGER FOUND
EUROPE SEARCHED FOR YEAR
LEGACY FOR N.Z. SOPRANO
((Doited Press Association—By V ectrio
Telegraph—Copyright)
LONDON, Noember 27
The New Zealand soprano, Miss Not a Dargel, for whom solicitors have been searching for a- year throughout Europe, in order to inform her'that an elderly music lover has left her a handsome legacy, has been found through an ‘ unkonwii admirer telephoning to the solicitors after hearing her broadcast German songs on November 7th last. Miss Dargel refuses to give the name of her benefactor, who died in the year 1931. He had always been her fairy godfather, but. she did not know that ho had left her anything, she said.
In private life she is Miss Nora Long. She took as her stage name Nora Dargel. She is a Wellington girl and •was educated at St. • Mary’s Convent. (She early showed promise of possessing ■a soprano voice of unusual quality, and Grange. She left New Zealand before the war in order to complete her vocal studies in Europe, and she made hei first appearance in grand opera in the vear 1918.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1933, Page 5
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