DAME MELBA’S ADVICE
AN EXCISED PASSAGE. FROM DAME CLARA BUTT'S BOOK (Times Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Whether Dame Nellie Melba did or did not advise Dame Clara Butt to “Sing Muck” to Australian audiences, the remark has been carefully excised from the volumes of “Clara Butt: Her Life Story," now on the market. There appears the caption, “Melba’s Advice.” The last line on this page is Dame Melba’s question. are you going to sing?” But the query is not answered, a new subject being broached on the next page whilst the one with the “notorious advice" has been carefully cut down, and a quarter of an inch of its inner margin has been neatly pasted down. By this time most people' with any acquaintance of Madame Melba have decided for themselves whether she did or did not make the remark in question.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17611, 16 January 1929, Page 11
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