MUSICAL TASTES.
MELBA AND THE AUSTRALIANS. ANOTHER SCENE TO COMEDY. MELBOURNE, Aug. 14. Another scene has been added to the Melba-Butt comedy “Sing ’em muck. A cable message has been received from. Singapore from Miss Ponder, tho compiler of. Dame Clara Butt’s memoirs, giving her version concerning the allegation that Dame Nellie Melba in 1906 told Da mo Butt to sing tho Australians and New Zealanders “muck,” as that would be' all they would understand. Miss Ponder states that 'this story was tokl her last year by Dame Butt, who had been tremendously impressed by. it. When Dame Butt went to Australia she by no means sang “muck, but classical numbers which were always popular. The preponderance of requests were for really classical stutt, Miss Ponder points out. Dame Butt told tho story repeatedly to show that the reverse was Hie ease and that tiro musical taste of tho Australians was well up to the average, if not above. it. Miss Ponder adds that Dame Butt passed the book after a by no means cursory reading. A tremendous lot of things were altered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 220, 15 August 1928, Page 7
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183MUSICAL TASTES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 220, 15 August 1928, Page 7
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