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| | CAROLINE HATCHARD "...A VOICE WITHOUT EQUAL..." by Charles A. Hooey : MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) |
 | | The Hatchards were quite enlightened, so once she reached her seventeenth year and liked opera, they cast Victorian constraints aside and sought out well-off friend, Albert Holly, so she could enrol at the Royal Academy of Music in London. |
 | | Her frizzy bright hair, her wide staring blue eyes, her waxen arms, and expressiveless face gave extraordinary effect to this unusual and fascinating part. |
 | | She has, moreover, one of those pliant, flexible voices that are exactly suited to the execution of the florid music that is allotted to the automatum, and she masters to perfection the effective little device of letting her voice `run down' as she periodically collapses into the arms of the solicitous assistant. |
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