Two Melba Stories.
! Twen*y-six thousand miles in 120 days. Over 200 miles of travelling per :day and forty-five different' cities 'visited constitutes Mine. Melba's record for her recent American tour. In Chicago Mine. Melba received a characteristic letter from an American school boy. "Please send along a ticket for your concert to-night,"it read, "for I have heard you on the gramophone, and want to know i/ you can really get in all those trills." The boy got two free pases. At Salt Lake City Mme. Me'iba's private car was detained some time in a shunting yard. All American shunting locomotives carry a large !)ell which is clangc-d incessantly. After bearing the fearful din for half an hour, the prima donna, being unable to 'make herself heard, shook her fist threat'taly at the. engine drivers. " Give us passes for to-night and we'll quit ringing," was the reply. They got them.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7846, 12 June 1905, Page 4
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149Two Melba Stories. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7846, 12 June 1905, Page 4
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