What is a Dove-eyed Flea?
Madame Winnie Fraser, the brilliant New Zealand dramatic soprano, who made her debut to the Australian radio audiences in a national programme from 2FC (Sydney) last month, tells of an amusing incident
-which occurred during one of her concerts in the Dominion, says "Wireless Weekly." She was singing an old English song, "The Old Countree," in which were the lines, "Had ! the wings of a dove I’d flee." Afterwards she was told by a woman who had been in the audience that her little boy had asked "What is a dove-eye:l flea?" Another anecdote refers to an occasion when Madame qas singing with a male choir. One of the latter had to sing "Hurrah for King Charles" With such force did he exclaim "King" that his false teeth shot out, and the resuli was avery gummy "Charles."
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Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 4, 4 August 1933, Page 10
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142What is a Dove-eyed Flea? Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 4, 4 August 1933, Page 10
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