by FLORENCE EASTON (soprano)
FLORENCE EASTON was born in Yorkshire, played in public as a pianist at eight years old, decided at fourteen to become a singer, and duly made her début at Covent Garden Opera House Xas Cho-Cho-San in Madam Butterfly. Since then she has sung in that opera over three hundred times, and altogether has appeared in eighty-eight operatic rôles in British, German, American and most other great opera houses. Caruso, whose own repertory was pretty considerable, said of Florence Easton. ' Her head is a music box. She lifts the lid, takes out one record and puts in another. That is the only way any singer could remember so many operas '.