MISS DARGON.

Kumara Times, Issue 2398, 9 May 1884, Page 2

MISS DARGON.

Miss Augusta L. Dargon, the gifted elocutionary artisteand tragedienne, who was to make her debut before a New Zealand audience at the Princess Theatre, Dunedin, on the Ist inst., is highly spoken of by the Press. The Australasian, referring to Miss Dargou’s delivery of the “ Charge of the Light Brigade,” seys :—“ It is no exaggeration to say that no human voice could go farther than hers did in the vividness with which she littered these stirring woids of Tennyson—which, however, are not Tennyson’s, but borrowed from a greater poet that went before him. No matter whose words, they are words of fire, and as they came from Miss Dargon’s lips they flashed through the air like winged electric sparks. Where Miss Dargon declaims an impassioned speech she is like a prophetess. If she walked at the head of an army, defending hearths and homes, chanting a national war-song, that army would never be conquered. And now Miss Dargon leaves for a while, but all hope she will come back and stay with ns. If she do not, we shall look upon her as a dr in a tic revelation, as a meteor, which, lighting the whole heavens for a moment, has then passed beyond the range of vision, not, however, to be forgotten.- We shall never forget Miss Dargon, just as we can never forget truth and beauty, and Nature in her simplicity and grandeur.”