Madame Albani.

NZ Truth, Issue 114, 24 August 1907, Page 6

Madame Albani.

Mme. : Albani 0.M., the great singer wlio comes to Wellington on September 10 and 12, although she has won such favor as comes to but few m this world, is nevertheless entitled) to the sympathy of all little girls m the country. For she never had a doll. When other lititle girls of her age were make-believe mothers of large and interesting families, to dress and care for and protect, little Marie Louise Cecile Emma Lajeunesse was studying the master composers. She jnver had time for dolls. At eight she played Beethoven's sonatas and all the principal works of Mozart, Haydni.. and Handel, and at ten she was singing m public, en tour with her elder sister. At fourteen she was leading soprano m the Cathedral of Albany, and at eighteen she made har debut m opera and took the musical world by : storm.. But she never had a doll.