Josi wrote: > Don't know what happened to her > voice, maybe she preferred acting to singing. She did a bit of both in the Henry Reed/Donald Swann radio play "Emily Butter", first broadcast in 1954 and enteted for the prestigious Prix Italia. (I've mentioned this to Jen already). Thanks for the background, though, Josi. In that respect Rose is like Marjorie Westbury who is far better remembered as a radio actress (especially as "Steve" in the Paul Temple series) but who also sang. She was 'Elsa', the Austrian opera singer, in "Emily Butter". In the fictional opera "Emily Butter" the fictional character of Elsa sang Emily herself, while Rose Hill sang the role of Mrs Elizabeth Thwaite. Emily is a shop assistant in a large department store and Mrs Thwaite the shoplifter who the plain clothes "police-lady, Miss Catherine Slot" sets out to catch. Miss Slot is sung by a bass, "the only thing possibly suggesting her profession being a neat blue helmet with silver spike which she is wearing tilted slightly forward upon her head". Rose Hill, as Mrs Thwaite, had the aria "I'm just looking round", followed by the recitative: "Somebody without me noticing has slipped into my shopping-bag: four tablets of soap, a powder compact, a set of doyleys, an electric iron, a pair of blankets, half a dozen pocket handkerchiefs, a small bottle of Jeyes' fluid, and a very l o n g - p l a y i n g g r a m o p h o n e r e c o r d. And sometimes I wonder how they can have got there, when all I have been doing... is... just looking round". Mrs T is also involved in the "Great Recognition Scene", where it is revealed that Emily is *not* her daughter. Enough of this rambling... Chris -- Chris Goddard Plymouth, U.K www.webrarian.co.uk