Word: talleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest of Atlanta's week was taken from a representative repertoire of well-tried operas, with Marion Talley and Mary Lewis the only newcomers added to the list of well-tried singers. With the company this year went Otto H. Kahn, chairman of the board of directors and majority stockholder. (See BUSINESS.) Said...
...ever before, that the eleven novelties and revivals, if not notably significant, had served their purpose of breaking the monotony of the standard repertoire. The consensus of opinion was that little had been accomplished for the cause of the U. S. singer by the widely heralded debuts of Marion Talley and Mary Lewis. Said Critic Olin Downes in the New York Times: "Undoubtedly the most valuable addition to the ranks of the Metropolitan in the past season was Lauritz Melchior, Danish tenor...
...flocked from all over the countryside to hear Aida, with Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli; Don Quichotte, with Feodor Chaliapin; La Bohême, with Lucrezia Bori, Beniamino Gigli, Antonio Scotti; Pagliacci, with Mary Lewis, Armand Tokatyan, Lawrence Tibbett; Jewels of the Madonna, with Florence Easton and Martinelli; Lucia, with Marion Talley; Tannhauser, with Rudolf Laubenthal; II Trovatore...
...prepared as industriously and intelligently for their debuts as Mr. Melchior. If they had, there might be here a different story to tell of the debuts of Miss Lewis and Miss Talley?Miss Lewis whose voice is not under any circumstances an important one for an operatic career; Miss Talley, with a better vocal equipment, but needing greatly long periods of quiet, concentrated study to eliminate serious vocal difficulties and find herself as an artist. Both young women were given publicity beyond their merits. Both of them went on the Metropolitan stage pursued by reputations manufactured in advance, and neither...
...Meanwhile the cause of all the comment had packed up and, with Mother Talley, started on her first professional concert tour. She went to Hartford, Conn., was met at the train by a delegation of prominent Hartfordians, was escorted to the City Hall, where Mayor Norman C. Stevens presented her with the keys of the city...