Broadcaster's Success

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 3, 31 July 1931, Page 32

Broadcaster's Success

Christchurch Vocalist LJSTENERS to 2YA and 8YA will remember Ailsa Nicol, who left New Zealand last year for the purpose of furthering her studies in London, and all will be pleased to know that this popular radio performer is meeting with well-deserved success at the Royal Academy of Music. Miss Nicol entered the Academy at the end of last September, and the professors, after hearing her in the entrance examination, were so impressed with the high standard of her production and technique that they decided that she would be able to tafe the grand opera course without preliminary work. Before. the end of her second term Miss Nicol was successful in obtaining her L.R.A.M., which usually takes at least two years, gaining very high | marks, The principal of the Academy, Sir John McEwan, was so interested in her work that he sent for her New Zealand record for the L.A.B. examination and it was recorded that when she passed this examination, at Christchurch in 1929, she had been recommended for an exhibition scholarship:" In view of her success at the Academy, the Associated Board have granted her two years’ free training, and they also refyinded her the fees already paid. Madame Josephine Ottley, of Christchurch, is justly proud of her past ‘pupil