ADA CROSSLEY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 287, 28 August 1908, Page 5

ADA CROSSLEY.

Twenty-six'tcas, dinners, and so on in a little over'a mouth was what Madame Ada Crossley was 'looking forward to when sho last wrote from London five weeks before her departure for Australia in the- Orontes. That does not mean, of course, the total of her'meals'in tliat period—ono supposes she has three meals a day at least —but the .extras thrown in'\by all sorts and conditions of . people anxious\to say good-bye in proper form to the Australian contralto, who has made herself so popular in Great Britain. Tho Austral and the Lyceum Clubs had already organised special at homes- in her honour, while several other . women's _ club 3 were following suit. 'Bliss Mario Corelli,who boasts' that ''she,'never ;gives' away a photo to anybody but her ■ nearest and . dearest friends, had ; included- Madamo Crossley in that charmed, circle and had bidden her to Stratford-on-Avon ? there to take a fond farewell. Then, again, Mr. and Mrs. Hennikor Heaton entertained her at tea on tho farfamed terrace of tho House, of Commons, with a debate in tho House of Lords to-finish up with. ' It is highly probable that by the time she sailed the twenty-six functions sho wrote about had swelled to nearly double that, number,'and one can quite understand that now' sho is revelling in the enforced idleness of sliinboard.