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Famous opera singer wearing a white elegant dress, white hat, and gloves, and carrying a white umbrella.

Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931) Portrait of Dame Nellie Melba. World-renowned soprano. Dame Nellie Melba's voice was remarkable for its even quality over a range of nearly three octaves, and for its pure, silvery timbre. She had international renown as a soprano, performing in many cities including Milan, Brussels, London, Paris, and New Yrk.

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1914–1918: Based in Australia during World War I, Melba worked tirelessly to raise funds for war charities. She also gave wartime concerts in North America. For her services to the war effort, Melba was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918. During this period she established a singing school at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in Albert Street, later renamed the Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music, providing her services free of charge. She often travelled from Lilydale to teach her ‘Melba's Girls'. 1920: She became the first artist of international standing to participate in direct radio broadcasts. 1926: Melba gave a number of supposedly ‘final’ performances. Her final Covent Garden performance was in 1926. 1927: She sang at the opening of Parliament House in Canberra, and was made a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. 1928: Her final and emotional concerts took place in in Australia. 1931: Melba died in Sydney on 23 February 1931 and was buried at the Lilydale Cemetery in Victoria. 2008: The private conservatorium, Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music, ceased teaching and became the Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust. Source: banknotes.rba.gov.au/australias-banknotes/people-on-the-b...

beachcomber australia May the Australian flag always fly high! Happy Australia Day to you and to all our Australian friends. Mary, Mary and Carol.

According to IMDb both films were released in November 1971 in Ireland - The Last Valley on the 19th. So I presume we are sometime fairly soon around that date.

My first thought when I saw this image was another movie - The Italian Job! The minis in line together speeding through Rome! A lovely shot of Dublin in the 70's. I love the lady and the girl at the bus stop with the bags of shopping waiting to take them home on the bus!

And that's presumably the (now extended) Gresham Hotel to the left? I stayed there many times in the 1970s,

1-9999 ZC Oct 71 to Mar 72, that Mk3 Cortina is brand new

Via Trove, Wednesday 5 July 1922 (?). See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/194721778?searchTerm=g...

Gresham Hotel on the right as evidenced in another Beehan photo taken slightly later. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000721612 Note. Free State soldier wearing German Pickelhelm helmet.. haven't seen that before! "Sir" James W Mackey no less? catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000721608

O Mac A paparazzo on right, I wonder who?

In Streetview, you can see the dates Established 1777 Rebuilt 1925 cut into an upper story, along with a M for Mackey on a shield.

We visited the rebuilt Gresham Hotel a couple of years ago -