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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1203, 11 August 1911, Page 7

Madame Melba is duo to arrivo in Melbourno on Sunday next. Sbe will bo followed at an interval of a. couple of days by Mr. John M'Cormack, who has chosen the Cape route by the Tbemistocles while the rest, of the principals will be hero tlio wek following. Hundreds of people are cnraiiiß over (snvs the Sydney "Tclcrapli") for tho September opera, season fiom New Zealand, Fiji, Brisbane, and Adelaide, and have already applied to J. C. Williamson, Ltd., tor scats. Mr. Fred Payne, a Victorian squatter, rallied from London to secure seats for tho whole of the seasons, both in Sydney and in Melbourne. "Tho pas«ion for amusement must have reached thn limit (says Monday's "Wan«amii Chronicle") when would-lic pnlron? of the theatre, or their paid nse-nts, unblu'liingly tnke up their positions in the public 'thoroughfare in front of tho booking-office liclwceu 7 and So clock on Sunday evenin? in order lo au-ait. tho opening of the offico on Monday niorii--1115! 'Vet such was the ra.se last evenins, when several persons took up I heir positions in the Avenue, equipped with spats ami wrap?, nnd settUd down for the loiiK night wait. By fi.-iS there was nuile a 'little" throng, fomi; of whom were wran?linc n.s to Iheir rightful nositions in the riiieue. resjardlpss of thn offence thereby occasioned to people homeward hound' from church. The seal-hnr.lers were presumably quite satisfied as to the propriety of their conduct, but there were many who held a contrary opinion,"