GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 55, 28 November 1907, Page 3

GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

Miss Ada Crossley is coming'back to Australia next year.' .So she-writes in private letters to her frienas. Her . concert company will be. different from that she brought out before. Mr: Percy Grainger is toq' much"of.I a star now"'to be content to accompany another'star'on tour. A year aftor Miss CrossJoy's visit Mr. Grainier, will come out on his own .account,! and bring Mr. Sandy, the Danish ./cellist,: with -.hini.' It seems' likely that in Mr. Grainger Australia will find her first representative composer. He is gradually; deserting pianoforte-playing for composition. ... . ' The" chaperon is more'to the .fore in Melbourne than ever sßo'was. It is quite out of i the question to go to; a theatre without u her;'you .would be cut by everyone instantly, j says;.a society,girl. A recent theatre, party , that consisted of three" young couples' had three chaperons,j one for each .pair'. ' Critics have , been calling., the Sydney, girls pretty, but .-the 'Melbourne. ,girls-; "fast.". ; . The. chaperon is the protest,; the-throwback,-as it wcro." ' " . ' .''" ' - Horiceforward in England women will ; be eligible not only, as : town , and couuty councillors and aldermen, but also as Mayors. The House of Lords struck out of the 'recent. Bill th'o' clause" making' them; eligible as Mayors, but tho- Hbuse of '.Commons restored 'Tty'ana . the Lords' finally, concurred with, the "Coms noils. • .Mayors are clc-cted by the town councils. -. In America they are elepted,'by"thi people; ." ..." * ' Melbai.arid' Clani Butt; say, that tlio chorus of • women's. voices now performing -at the Exhibition in Melbourne cojild. not be got -together, in any, other country. .Large choruses geftehilly rieed men's ,v'oices'to .support' them. This-Qne does not!.ln pieces'like, theExhibition'o'd<S,; the brass band,; composed entirely' of.women, always lends its-support. The band does notr-playso often as the general public ■ would'like.,",So. many examinations are coming off now that thp stwlerits who are the band play.ers'have too : m'Uch to'do to'givo many'; exhibition:performances. . '. A new. use, of the longdistance telephone is reported, to have, been made by a "girl in Pennsylvania. .' She secured an operatic enfeagement'by singing a. sample number into a telephone to a manager in Philadelphia. ,