Word: talleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gertrude Kappel Marion Talley...
...Bright College years" needs just such an improvement. The melody and harmonies could not be improved upon, and the words are excellent in sentiment and in selection; but the words do not always fit the music as nicely as they should. While a Marion Talley can easily and artistically spread one word or one syllable of a word over from three to thirty-three notes, it gives a rather awkward effect if many inexperienced and uncultured voices attempt to do likewise in particular when the syllable is not euphonious in itself...
...jury in Cleveland, Ohio, awarded Richardo Dellera, assistant conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, $1,000 damages from the Green Cab Co. He had sued for $25,000 because a taxicab driver had impaired his piano technique by slamming a door on his fingers, two years ago. Soprano Marion Talley testified that his fingers were in pretty bad shape...
...Also in Cleveland, the Metropolitan Opera Company exhibited its wares and Soprano Talley received the critics' superlatives that had been denied her during her Manhattan season...
...Miss Witwer's father, the mechanic, had told her after the concert: "You sang like a gol-durn angel." It became obvious that Miss Witwer was being groomed to enter the list of artistically mediocre "favorite daughters" of U. S. opera. Like Grace Moore (TIME, Feb. 20), Marion Talley (TIME, March 1, 1926), she would make her debut surrounded with newspaper reporters and home folks. If she made her debut at the Metropolitan (Otto Kahn, Chairman), opera-devotees would again make puns about "You Kahn or you Kahn't," or "What's the matter with Witwer...