Word: talley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lewisohn Stadium for a guest appearance. That was the year Lauritz Melchior made his Metropolitan debut in Tannhäuser, an event eclipsed by another debut the evening of the same day. With the greatest blowing & puffing of publicity ever to accompany a U.S. operatic debut, Marion Talley, an 18-year-old Kansas City soprano, sang Gilda in Rigoletto, to the clicking of telegraph keys and the onrush of trainloads of Kansas citizenry. After three years of straining her immature voice, Marion Talley retired from opera for good. (Currently the Met is plugging immature Patrice Munsel, a Spokane coloratura...
Traubel was five years older than Talley, but when Giulio Gatti-Casazza, general director of the Metropolitan, offered her an audition, she turned it down, saying that she was too young. "I knew I wasn't ready. If the prophet Moses had come down and asked me to sing at the Met I would have said, 'You run your business, I'll run mine.' " She went back to St. Louis and Madame Karst...
Sopranos Emma Calvé, Emmy Destinn, Olive Fremstad, Marcella Sembrich, Marion Talley; Tenors Nino Martini, Lauritz Melchior; Baritone Pasquale Amato; Violinist Efrem Zimbalist...
Died. Truman Hughes Talley, 50, newsreel and documentary film producer; executive vice president of Movietonews, Inc.; in Manhattan. His outstanding documentary was The First World War, inspired by Laurence Stallings' picture book...
...this one. ∽∽ Meantime, Billy Conn, the almost-champ, pulled a sneak wedding to 19-year-old Mary Louise Smith, went into hiding at Promoter Mike Jacobs' home in Rumson, N.J. Reason: her father had threatened to knock Billy silly if they did it. ∽∽ Marion Talley finally won a divorce from her music-teacher husband, whose countersuit had credited eight assorted lovers to the onetime star of the Metropolitan (who later reduced on and for Ry-Krisp). A Los Angeles judge listened to the evidence seven weeks, found all the charges against the singer false, gave...