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Lieutenant B. B. Talley who spent two years in Nicaragua from 1929 to 1931 with the Canal survey, will speak tonight at the Institute of Geography. He will talk on the peoples, customs, and archeology of Nicaragua...
Lieutenant Talley was in command of the engineers sent to relieve the city of Managua after the earthquake there in 1929. The city had caught fire after the quake and the engineers battled the fire without water for five days before...
...Sembrich making her operatic farewell; Enrico Caruso singing his last, as the bearded Jew in Halévy's La Juive; Geraldine Farrar appearing in Die Königskinder with a flock of real, live geese (TIME, Nov. 12); Maria Jeritza giving her first breath-taking Tosca; Marion Talley making her début with mounted police handling the sidewalk crowds outside the dingy opera house...
...wheat has not been all. Marion Talley has been studying as she never studied before. She went to Europe. In Germany she met Pianist Michael Raucheisen, married him. He left because, he said, she always had her mother and her sister Florence with her. Marion travels without the family now. She bought them a house in Kansas City last summer, left them there. She returned to New York, bought herself a La Salle limousine, Bergdorf-Goodman clothes, bobbed her hair, took to roller-skating in Central Park. She used to be plump, phlegmatic, frownish about makeup, proud of being oldfashioned...
...almost excited too. It had not expected as much as the New Yorkers did eight years ago and it got more. The light, appealing voice seemed better controlled. The Caro Nome with its trills and top was expertly sung. The acting had some meaning. When newsmen asked Marion Talley to explain the change she answered: "Madame Schumann-Heink used to tell me I needed to live and to suffer. Well, maybe I have. That was seven years...