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After graduating from Kansas City's Westport High School in 1932, the girl clerked in the Kansas City Junior League Thrift Shop, later worked as a salesgirl and a model in Harzfeld's specialty shop. In 1938 she changed her name to Ann Eden and went to New York in search of fame. She was a Powers model. ("An all-round, wholesome-looking girl," recalls John Robert Powers. "We don't get calls for them like that any more. Nowadays they want a cadaverous look...
Last December Elva walked into Kansas City's swank Harzfeld's store, charmed a clerk into selling her nearly $300 worth of clothes on someone else's charge account. By the time the fraud was discovered, Elva had gone back to the campus at Lawrence, distributed a good bit of the stuff as Christmas presents to friends, and settled down with her new clothes to enjoy a new popularity...
...last symphonic venture (two concerts by the Kansas City Musicians Association) was sponsored by Conrad Henry Mann shortly before he was indicted under the Federal lottery law. Before that the Chamber's favorite was Soprano Marion Talley, a local telegrapher's daughter whose career Storeman Seigmund Harzfeld helped to finance. This year's music chief is doughty Powell Campbell Groner, president of Kansas City Public Service Co. Burned though he was from going to sleep under an ultraviolet lamp, he appeared last week in Convention Hall to introduce the orchestra which the Kansas City Times headlined...
...Talleys looked around for another teacher, chose Ottley Cranston, who with Mrs. Cranston directs the Kansas City Civic Opera Company. Marion studied the roles of Mignon and Arline in the Bohemian Girl, sang them in May, 1922 (aged 15), Kansas City pricked up its ears. Jacob A. Harzfeld and John T. Harding did more than prick up their ears. They set about overcoming the Talley difficulty, which was lack of funds, arranged a series of concerts that netted $10,000, arranged through Otto Kahn an audition with the Metropolitan Opera authorities in November, 1922. There followed months of study...
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