Melodies and Memories

Contents

• 1. Early days in Australia;
• 2. Study in Paris;
• 3. My first opera;
• 4. My debuts in London and Paris;
• 5. London and Windsor;
• 6. Merry jests - Lord and Lady Lytton;
• 7. Tosti - Landon Ronald;
• 8. St. Petersburg - Palermo - Nice;
• 9. Terror and triumph - King Oscar;
• 10. New York - King Edward VII;
• 11. Further American experiences;
• 12. London again;
• 13. My adventures in California;
• 14. In Germany and Austria;
• 15. Practical jokes;
• 16. Monte Carlo;
• 17. Australia again - Dame Rumour;
• 18. New Zealand (a poetic interlude);
• 19. Alfred de Rothschild and others;
• 20. Peche Melba - Oscar Hammerstein;
• 21. Singing for Hammerstein - singing for gramophones - proposals;
• 22. Touring the back-blocks;
• 23. Lord Mount Stephen - Lord Northcliffe - Lord Sandwich;
• 24. The war;
• 25. Charlie Chaplin;
• 26. Post-war London - royalties - India;
• 27. My country and my art;
• 28. Conclusion; Index.