Show Melba Starts on World Tour EaI E I leave lav next nellt Wednesday Y morning on the In London and spend pend 24 21 hours houn there trying Oft on frocks frock and again aln I hats hat that than t I leave for tor Naples where Im going to gIve a concert for th the ot of the italian earthquake sufferers Then It off to for Thus Thu nit exit The Th speaker kr w was nune non other than the great t singer and ilia she waved ved her herDd hand Dd i an imaginary farewell to herself when hn she hl had the HI sentence I Is the cou course ot of an n Interview erda at her apartment In lbs P Pleas te n up concert morass because of the lb b by tb the way WIY I may refer to as m my burn she h continued sod laughed merrily the Australian trip I is isor tit or sentimental interest to tom m inc I want them all to hear me there thre thereIn In m my natly the length and breadth of It And Urn Im going to sums bush buah the halls hall of which are so small mn that YOU cannot put a concert grand piano JIno on th the platform and nd thu an upright must mut be used ADd some me of th thou baI hold only a f few hundred persons to I Imn mn mean to open wide wid all 11 the windows and door so that tbt the poor who can cau cannot not afford to buy seats will be able bl to listen Iten out tn In the streets I want ant them eli all to hear rn m and SUd Mme Melba spread pread hr her arnie all as it If to indicate the Whole listening world Then I return to London In the thelI lI spring ot of 1010 and nd sing Iq In Covent Cont erden and aad In the autumn or Of that tbt year ear J I come com to te Nw York to sing Inc In opera After that J I begin In a long concert tOUr loUr acro across this going as tar far u as California and finally nail Into Canada Canad There Then That doss doe not as If I 1 were very fon fond of lolling about don does It I Ilk like some something thing to be dol doing am you say over b here Urns chatted animatedly bout about hr her plans and reviewed them with the Interest of a young artist artt J Jolt t starting out on hr her oar career Jut Just 5 If there W were wor worlds till left to conquer her on t she h said d was that ah she COuld nO not go 0 to Russia end Ind to York Tork Herald Urald |