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...divas of the "Golden Age," only 71-year-old Olive Fremstad and 76-year-old Emma Eames were left. Emma Calvé had outlived Tetrazzini, Sembrich, Schumann-Heink by a few years, Melba, Nordica, Patti by many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Carmen Dies | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Australia is sometimes called the suburbs of the world by disgruntled Diggers. City dwellers live in sprawling suburban-type homes. Some Americans consider Dame Nellie Melba and Harry Bridges the only great Australian contributions to civilization. Because there has been no intense historical development in recent years, Australians have not yet given birth to the broad natural talents they possess. They may reveal themselves after the present national threat has run its course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Down Under Comes Up | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Majestic Soprano Nellie Melba was once asked by an eager young man if she would sing at a Manhattan morning musicale. "Sing!" snapped Melba. "I can't even spit at 11 a.m." But sing she did, and a whopping fee she got. That was nearly 50 years ago. After Melba, other great and near-great musicians jostled one another to perform for the dowagers at Albert Morris Bagby's Musical Mornings. Last January, in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, the 50th year of "the Bagbys," the 429th concert reached its end. For the first time dapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Music in the Morning | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...MELBA GELLING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...girls to come with him into the Baldwin Hills where they would catch rabbits. They met him Saturday afternoon and walked back into the gullied wilderness where they built a fire. To catch the rabbits the girls were to be placed separately at different spots. "I left Jeanette and Melba sitting there, I took Madeline up the canyon. . . . After I choked her there with my hands ... I tied a piece of rope around her neck to make sure she was dead." Then he returned and repeated the crime with the others. Then he ravished the three bodies. Finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Three Little Girls | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

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