Word: talleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figures play around in the pate of Marion Talley last week as she sped from Buffalo, N. Y., to Quincy, Ill. 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...
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...
...Talley trouble," meanwhile, has come to mean lack of temperament. The life she leads has been as much to blame. In it there have been vocal gymnastics, new languages for new operas, right living. There have been few books, few friends, no beaus. There have been the rigid standards bred by the First Christian Church of Kansas City, a public to be a little suspicious of, and a handful of haughty prima donna ways which have not helped her popularity...
Miss Marion Nevada Talley, opera singer. Reason: "what the farmers need...
...Metropolitan's census. It was interesting to speculate upon which one of these the fierce light of publicity would beat, during the white winter, causing utterances like the "divine spark" speech of Grace Moore, and bringing from far haunts rude, related delegations like the one which attended Marion Talley's debut. Marek Windheim was not in line for these honors : had he been a soprano even, he would still have been a Pole and the Poles are too remote for human interest stories. Aida Doninelli, a Central American diva, would be likewise unsatisfactory. Grace Divine and Pearl Besuner...