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Show MADAME MELBA IS HOMED BY KING San Francisco, March 3 Madame NeJlic Melba, the prima donna, o nrrived hero yesterday on her way to Australia, today Issued a statement denouncing as an impostor a man, who she said, was representing himself him-self In Nevada as her son Madame Melba's son, George Armstrong. Arm-strong. Is with her here. She said that the imposter, she had learned, was 35 years old, "By that token I should have been married when I was ten years old," she added. Madame Melba last night received the appointment of "Lady of Grace" conferred by King George of England, in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of which the British king Is the sovereign sov-ereign head. Madame Melba Is the twentieth woman In the history of the order, which was founded by the ancient an-cient knights of Malta. |