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Show Melba, Famous : Soprano Dies MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb. 23 ri." Dame Nellie Melba, who In persuaded the London opera bouso to ;;ive Caruso a trial, died here today after an illncas of several sev-eral weeks. Death camo to the opera star, one of thf world's greatest sopranos in her sixty-cixth year after an Illness which befell her while in Cairo, Egypt, and for which she consulted specialists in Ccrmany, Australia, France and Englano without success. Homeward bound to her native Australia, 3he became seriously ill aboard tho liner Cathay Nov. 4, before the ship docked at Free-mantle Free-mantle and doctors would not permit per-mit her to land. When the Cathay touched Melbourne she was taken ashore- to a hospital, and since that 1 time has hovered between life and death. |