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People everywhere have heard Nellie Melba sing "Home Sweet Home," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," Tosti's "Goodbye." Opera crowds have seen her as Mimi in La Bohème, Violetta in La Traviata, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Lucia, Juliette. The pure and springlike quality of her voice established her as Patti's greatest successor. It lasted her well through middle age because she used it so intelligently, won her triumphs for 40 years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed...
...career full of glory and adulation Death came last week to Dame Nellie Melba, 64, in Sydney, Australia. Her fate was a hideous, unnamed disease. In Cairo, some time ago, she contracted what was presumably some form of Leishmaniasis, a disease characterized by many boils and caused by a microscopic animal parasite which gets into the blood stream supposedly by bedbug or louse bite. She appeared to be cured in the Autumn before leaving England for Australia. On shipboard she suffered a relapse, was carried ashore to Melbourne on a cot. A German doctor who had helped...
...kangaroo was scarcely more Australian than Melba herself. In Australia she grew up as Nellie Porter Mitchell, daughter of a rigid Scottish contractor who thwarted all her early efforts to make music a profession. He relented after her unfortunate marriage to Charles Nesbitt Armstrong, manager of a sugar plantation in the Queensland Bush, whom she left two months after the birth of her son George. She left her son, too, although she continued to provide for him. When he was 23 their reconciliation took place in Kansas City, and in recent years she had displayed great pride in grandmothering...
Nellie Porter Mitchell Armstrong (Dame Nellie Melba), 71, famed operatic soprano, arrived in Freemantle, West Australia, was too ill to debark, was taken off the boat in a cot at Melbourne...
...Boers in South Africa. In Manhattan that year, Bernhardt and Coquelin were playing in repertoire. Mrs. Leslie Carter was Zaza and Ada Rehan was the talk of the town as Sweet Nell of Old Drury. At the opera it was the "Golden Age." Sembrich was singing and Fames, Ternina, Melba and the de Reszkés. It was before the time of Caruso, Fremstad and Tetrazzini. It was way back in the year of the now grandmotherly Louise Homer and of the Viennese Fritzi Scheff...