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...Wichita, Kan...
...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 in Manhattan, then more concerts in Kansas City, Kan., in Lindsborg, Kan., in Emporia. The Talleys?mother, Florence and Marion?went to Italy, stayed nearly a year in Milan. Marion studied languages, interpretation, acquired a repertoire. There on July 4, 1925, she and Signer Gatti-Casazza met, drew up the contract whose fulfillment began last week...
...dance began. Charlestoners, male and female, from Akron, Cleveland, Canton, McKeesport, Pa.; from Detroit and Toledo; from Wichita, Kan., Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Davenport, Topeka, Omaha, and Waterloo, la.; from Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Fort Wayne, Joliet and Peoria, 111.; from Charleston, Little Rock, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Tulsa, Okla., branded their shinbones and burned their heels, clutched each other, pumping, weaving, while the fiddles whimpered and the drums pitapated. "CHARLEston," said the pipsqueak piccolos, "CharleSTON," sang the clariboes, "CHARLESTON." the drunken night-horns caroled, hoarse and sweet. The long-haired bimboes, the pool-parlor cowboys, street-sheiks, bullyboys...
Married. Miss Marian Bleakley, who attracted nation-wide interest in 1904 when exhibited as a two-pound "incubator baby" at the St. Louis World's Fair; to one Dewey W. Brown; at Topeka, Kan...
...Kansas City. Harry Greb, middleweight champion, who has acquired the preposterous habit of fighting as if he enjoyed it, of training in baggage cars while touring the country to seek whom he may devour, flattened one Ed Smith of Neodosha, Kan., in four rounds...