Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fifty (that stood for the number of concerts scheduled),* by $3,000 (the approximate fee) multiply and subtract expenses. . . . The figuring held no terrors for her. She had excelled in arithmetic back home in the Kansas City school-in arithmetic, deportment and singing. Singing had made her a Metropolitan Opera star at 19. Arithmetic broadened into a good business sense which enables her to make her own contracts to her own good advantage. In deportment there has been little change...
Lack of change, probably more than any single factor, has spoiled Marion Talley for Manhattan's most musical. When she made her debut at the Metropolitan in 1926, it was in the full glare of blazing publicity. Critics realized that the fuss was none of her making, that presses all over the U. S. were starved at the time for a good human interest story. They were for the most part kind. She had a pleasant voice. She might some day become an artist. And for three years they waited...
Last spring the rumor circulated that the Metropolitan was through with her. The rumor was false. She will give a few performances in January but first there will be a concert tour through Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma. In February she begins again in Lancaster, Pa., goes through the South as far as Havana. It took just one hysterical evening in Manhattan to make the Talley name. The harvest, reaped largely on the road, mounts well toward the million mark...
...METROPOLITAN...
Life Span. In 1840 a person aged 50 might have expected to live to be 70. In spite of decreased infant mortality, public hygiene and medical skill, a person now 50 can expect to live only until he is 71. (Louis Israel Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance statistician...