"Melba" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in town for the dinner to Sir Jacob Rowley. I begged him to come back in—How did do! How did do! Yes, very. Mr. Raleigh, do tell the opera people not to put on Romeo too often this season. Of course Melba's splendid in it, and ...
— The Woman With The Fan • Robert Hichens
... the Hotel Martin that the famous singers came—Jean and Edouard de Reszke and Pol Plancon and Melba; the French statesman, Jules Cambon, used to come, and Maurice Grau—then the manager of the Metropolitan—and Chartran, the celebrated painter, and the great Ysaye and Bartholdi. And Paulus—Koster ...
— Greenwich Village • Anna Alice Chapin
... Branch insisted, stubbornly. "After that, a cup of chicken broth, a grilled sweetbread, and toast Melba." ...
— Rainbow's End • Rex Beach |
