Stylish cover on record album sleeve of Australian soprano Gladys Moncrieff ,1892-1976, known as the Australian Queen of Song and Our Glad. Born at Bundaberg , Queensland ,she performed in Townsville and Charters Towers as a child in a small musical road show, billed as Little Gladys --The Australian Wonder Child.
A big hit in London musical comedy , she returned to Australia in the l930s and toured widely , said to have become one of the highest paid performing artists in the history of the Australian stage. Moncrieff is commemorated in a Queensland electorate, a Canberra suburb , an hibiscus and a library . Our Glad cover found in a Townsville treasure hunt.
