MISS BUCKMAN.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1922, Page 4

MISS BUCKMAN.

HER AUSTRALIAN SUCCESSES. Miss Rosina Buckman is giving a series of concerts in Brisbane this month. There is no doubt (say< the Brisbane Mail) that we are all exceptionally pleased at Miss Buckman's success, which was not won without hard work and perseverance. She went to London, it is said, with only .£BO to her name, and, after long days of struggle, she has attained a brilliant success in the world of music. She is now recognised by the most prominent musical critics as one of the world’s dramatic sopranos. She soon became known as England’s Madame Butterfly, and she was starreu in the great operas. “Buckman” was heralded from city to city. Her Australian and New Zealand tours have also been crowned with success. Sydney awoke to her greatness last Saturday night, when the remarkable singer, supported by Maurice D’Oisly, Miss Leon (’cellist), and Mr. Percy Kahn, roused intense enthusiasm in the city. The average concert and theatrical publicity is so rich in adjective that one is loth to use “marvellous,’ “brilliant,” or “unprecedented” to describe her voice. The words close their meaning. But one can use all three to pay a tribute to Miss Buckman, and realise that they convey the absolute truth*