HOW FRANCES ALDA WAS WELCOMED TO HER HOMELAND
Vf ADAME FRANCES ALDA was up bright and early this morning on the Niagara to obtain her ftrust glimpse of her native New Zealand. Madame last left it, you see, as a baby of 10 months. So she does not remember much about it. With her brightest smile Madame greeted the interviewers, merrily, telling them of two Australian pressmen who actually asked her where the Metropolitan Opera House was to be found! This was bad, but worse was to come. All went swimmingly this morning until one interviewer (certainly not from THE SUN) asked the diva: “Now, where DID you come from?” “Get out! Get out!” cried Madame, as she disappeared into her cabin, ejaculating “Bah-s” with the rapidity of a Gatling gun. “It is too awful!” And, so it was that Frances Alda, world-famous songstress, and one of New Zealand’s most distinguished daughters, was welcomed to her homeland.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 159, 26 September 1927, Page 1
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