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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...
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...
Patrioteers were outraged nevertheless. Jumping up at a Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting, an ex-Tammany judge named Alfred J. Talley demanded that New York City parents "stamp out this slimy enemy" and oust members of the Board of Higher Education (which runs the public colleges) for "neglect of duty." The Taxpayers Union's President Joseph Goldsmith demanded that City College be closed until "every un-American professor and student is removed...