Show I q O i y Author hor o of How 7 ow to Win Friends f r and nd Influence People ITH NOT IF IP YOU k kAril Aril ARU J TO 10 DO IT k You will have to Ibok at the map of Austraha Australia a long time to find Deans Dean's Marsh and when you find it you will disco discover discor r It has a population tio tion of or If you go out from the village about three miles you will find the home of a sheep rancher And there in that house bouse was born borna a girl by the name namo of Marjorie La Lawrence Larence rence I She grew up on horses led an outdoor life lire helped take care atthe of at the other children milked the cows An Australian sheep ranch girl I An And then a very queer thing hap hap- A new country schoolmaster came along and instituted singing in the little school MarJane's Mar Mar- Jorles Janes voice voke led all the rest Here was something she wanted anted to do I above everything else in tl the EJ world Sing But what chance was there for tor her a country girl on a sheep ranch iss In Australia A U One day she saw a notice In The Tho Melbourne Sun that there was tb be a singing competition in Melbourne Mel Mel- bourne She was 18 13 y years ars old and had no way of getting to Melbourne I which was 90 30 miles awa away But there was a way for Marjorie Marjone Lawrence She got out her favorite horse I her brother put food in a pair of saddle Marjorie bounced on ontie I IU U tie the e horse and set out for Melbourne At night she stayed along the way and as she rode by day she practiced ed her songs Three days it took her to get to Melbourne Trial night came The other girls had city dresses they knew the ways of or the world All that Marjorie Marjorie Mar Mar- jorie knew was that she wanted to sing Then her name was announced and she walked out in the dress sue she had made for herself back In the little farmhouse And as she stepped on the stage she thought only of her lIer song Fright right passed Confidence came u. u I She one uc wool won I A taste of v victory ct r She stayed In Melbourne and s got of a job in a dressmaking dressmaking dress dress- making shop sewing With the i money she studied music Studied two years and then her father realizing how determined she was to sing gave her enough 1 money to go to Paris Now she had II all aU her time for study Three years after she arr arrived ed in Paris she made a sensational debut In the world famous hyper critical Paris Grand Opera A debut so successful successful suc suc- it was co compared b by the critics critics critics cri cri- tics to the debut of I V to know 1 Want where she l is day At New Yorks York's Metropolis io Opera and proclaimed Its i idral 1 dral dramatic soprano item She he Is U t th only woman in the history or of tv th Metropolitan ever to ride the ho hone Grane In in the Ring cycle ccle drama dram according tp tt I Wagner's Wagners Wa ners ner's own stage directions Thi t others others- have always walked on meek meek ly leading the horse But nut 1 Lawrence rides J I What a wo wonderful thin thing g Is 13 deter It It doesn't matter what what tho tiro obstacles are the only Y thin thit I that counts Is how much I tion you have It took Marjo l t Lawrence from a sheep ranch an and and put her in the famous Metropolitan t. t Opera r |