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...Caviar & Melba. Beverley began his glamorous career (in 1921) as a reporter for London's gaudy Sunday Dispatch. The aim of this journal was to supply its readers with "an astonishing array of obscure countesses, viscountesses and . . . wives of baronets, all pontificating with monotonous regularity on the problems of the hour." As many of these noble ladies were "barely literate," it was up to Beverley to invent their opinions in order to have something to report. The rest of his job was writing what the Dispatch called "caviar-and-champagne" items, e.g., MYSTERY DOCTOR DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF COUNTESS; ARAB...
...happy day for Beverley when the Dispatch dispatched him on an interview with Prima Donna Nellie Melba, to get her views on a currently newsy murder. They became good friends; she introduced him to high society, and he, in return, tried to write her autobiography for her. He found it hard sledding...
...pointed out that only yesterday Melba had said she looked like a cook and faked all her top notes...
...Vienna, she had heard that the Metropolitan was a harsh house, so big that a singer could not move around onstage without sacrificing her voice. The hallowed ghosts of the Met were all around her. How would she measure up to the great Gildas of the past-Sembrich, Melba, Galli-Curci...
...least they sound like clarinets. It's an old Italian custom. Also a Bavarian rite of lighting four candles, one each week of advent. The mayor lights them; really great to see. The Camp Edwards Choral Arts Society will sing at that one. We even have Mme. Melba McCreery with a group of church soloists in the evening. She sang over forty times at La Scala...