Word: melba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people jostle through crowds to glimpse. But it was not for the King or for the Queen that common folk had stood, many of them, some 20 hours in line, not for them especially that Covent Garden had preened itself to a pre-War splendor. It was for Nellie Melba,* prima donna, Dame of the British Empire, who had set that night for her farewell appearance in opera...
...Britishers heard her sing over the radio, heard the little speech. Some 3,000 paid trebled prices to get into the theatre. Important correspondents, critics, wrote columns on her "brilliant farewell" on the same stage where she had made "triumphant début" 38 years before. Melba, happy, read their stories, sniffed a little at the "triumphant début," recalled her own version...
...second time within a few months you refer to the esteemed wife of Ignace Jan Paderewski as Mme. Paderewski" (TIME, May 24, MUSIC). Permit me to suggest that "Mme. Paderewska" is the correct form- a title, by the way, which Dame Nellie Melba declared, in her autobiography, Melodies and Memories (TIME, April 26, BOOKS) would have been acceptable to herself, had it ever been offered...
...built with some $2,000,000 of the profits from Rose-Marie. In the lobby will stand a life-size figure of the elder Hammerstein. At the official opening, probably in September, 1927, will appear many of the singers who began or advanced their professional careers under his banner-Melba, Calvé, Tetrazzini, Mary Garden, John McCormack...
...what country is Nellie Melba native...