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Bounding kangaroos and the not yet forgotten dulcet voice of aging Dame Nellie Melba are all that "Australia" calls up in many a mind. Humans under 30 seldom consciously associate "Peach Melba" or "Toast Melba" (very thin, very brown) with the great one time singer who is the only world-famed Australian...
David A. Schulte, Manhattan retailer: "When women enter my tobacco shops or candy stores I can often recognize the scents of their powders and perfumes as having been made in my factories, for I, as a manufacturer, am Vivaudou, and Melba too. U. S. women now spend on the average $6 yearly for perfumes and cosmetics, I figure, and in five years they will spend three times as much...
...that nature had twined round her head in a manner which I have received credit for inventing. Well, I re-versed the tongs and curled the hair of this saucebox as she desired it; her friends came to me; soon I opened a new store; in two years Nellie Melba was among my customers. Four years ago the barbers of Paris erected a statue of me. I am a very rich...
...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...
...American Who's Who gives Dame Melba's age as 60; the New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 65; while many press despatches insisted she "is said to be 76." Her own estimate...