Word: talley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time it meant the opera debut of Marion Talley, so sensationalized by the Press that headline readers were led to believe that this Kansas City telegrapher's daughter must be the world's greatest singer. Three years later when the bubble was thoroughly pricked and Marion Talley was richer by half a million dollars, she suddenly announced that she was through with singing. This time she was attempting a come back with the newborn Chicago Grand Opera (TIME, Jan. 1). And if there were no mounted police to drive off the crowds who could...
...Soprano Maria Jeritza, who opened many a Metropolitan season, was to sing the first night in Tosca. Mario Chamlee, John Charles Thomas and Grace Moore were listed for later on. Edith Mason and Rosa Raisa, two of Insull's singers, were back New Year's Eve Marion Talley will sing in Rigoletto, the opera in which she made her sensational Metropolitan debut seven years ago (TIME, March 1, 1926) For four years Miss Talley has been in re tirement, ostensibly wheat-farming in Kansas. Because farming has not proved so profitable as singing she is attempting a comeback...
...boosted by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. Kansas City's 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...
Marriage Annulled. Marion Talley Raucheisen, 26, Kansas City's coloratura soprano (Metropolitan Opera Company debut, 1926; retirement, 1929); and Michael Raucheisen, 43, German pianist; in Long Beach. Calif. Grounds: immediately after the wedding last June, the groom ordered out the bride's mother & sister...
...surrounded by a flock of live geese which she insisted on having against all other judgment; the night golden-haired Maria Jeritza gave her first breath-taking performance of Tosca and astounded New Yorkers by singing the Vissi d' arte lying flat on the stage; the night Marion Talley made her debut with a delegation from Kansas City to ballyhoo her placid, immature performance; the night Antonio Scotti, celebrating his 25th anniversary at the Metropolitan, received as tribute a brace of pigeons hidden in a great basket of flowers...