MUSICAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1361, 24 January 1905, Page 2

MUSICAL NOTES.

Madame Melba has founded two anr* prizes at the Royal Academy of -If London, of JE2S each, for the enooii ment of singing in the English lanf The English ballad is tho medium seieo" for the contest, which is open to sopi* aDd contralto singero. Ellen Wright, the composer of the : “ Violets,” which has had so great pc appreciation, reoently died. She England and in private life was knoySlf Mrs Percy Cross Standing. The funeral of the late Mr Dan Lc: took place at Tooting cemetery on Novel ber 25th. The funeral was timed to lea Mr Leno’s residence, Springfield, Atki road, Clapham Common, shortly before o’olock, but for more than a couple hours previously people began to assemb in the neighborhood of the house, j**z under tho control of the police, )*rrr£f footpaths for half a mile from tha~~3 - in tho direction of tho Ascension, where the first part • funeral ceremony was conducted body of the late comedian, enclose elm coffin, reposed in the drawiiSf The coffin bore the following iuscrij, ' —“George Galvin ‘Dan Leno,’ ' entered into rest, October 81, 1904.

43 years.” The ccffin was surround a magnificent display of floral tokt. sympathy, the wreaths numbering they having come from most of the v known people in the theatrical and m’ hall world.

Among tho floral tributes at Dan Ifuneral was one from Mr Sid May, yy took the form of the prosoenium of a s, with thefiot drop down, across which wthe words, “ The stage waits.” Mr Ft Shand sent clogs in violets, on a ens?' Marie Corelli tells some interesting : dents of her early career in a new i 3 entitled 11 With Pen and Camera Sw views with celebrities, which is being j, lished by R. A. Everett and Co. The will also be portraits and a facsimile pf in Miss Corelli’s own handwriting,**^

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