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...Covent Garden, six years later moved on to Bayreuth and Munich, where he was rated one of the finest German-style tenors of the day. One sunny afternoon in 1926 he made his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. That evening, ill-starred Kansas City Soprano Marion Talley made hers. In the storm and shuffle of publicity that attended Soprano Talley's debut, Melchior was practically overlooked. One critic described his acting as "barely more than awkward." But Melchior stayed on. Not long afterward, Soprano Talley's bubble had burst, and Manhattan operagoers began to think...
Coach Cromwell's 1938 crop of runners & jumpers who came East last week have been undefeated this season. Outstanding sprinter is Adrian Talley, who lived up to expectations by winning the 100-yd. dash last week. Outstanding pole vaulters, curiously enough, are another pair of "Trojan Twins," Loring Day and Kenneth Dills. Both soar 14 ft., 3 in. with ease, and Day's recent vault of 14 ft., 7 in. is the top pole-vaulting performance of the year. Although Day & Dills kept in trim during the transcontinental trip by chinning on a bar stretched across the Pullman...
Alda on her contemporaries: (Geraldine Farrar): "She and I were never friends." (Enrico Caruso): "His voice and mine blended so completely that they became one voice. The voice of humanity-male and female-joined into one." (Marion Talley): "If ever a child had a God-given voice, that girl had it. But intelligence about using it? That's something else again." (Maria Jeritza, who she says asked her for voice instruction): "No. You and I are friends now. But if I started to teach you we wouldn't be friends. Let's leave it at that." (Ganna...
...critic Henderson never minced matters. He called Marion Talley "A Chamber of Commerce soprano with a phonograph voice." He wrote of a soprano singing Iphigénie en Aulide that "she seemed a fit subject for the sacrifice." Because the Metropolitan put on too many Fausts in the 18905 he called it "Das Faustspielhaus...
Those who remember Soprano Talley fas a cornfed prima donna will scarcely recognize her in Follow Your Heart. On her Kansas wheat farm, whither she retired in a huff in 1929, she has trained down from 146 to 105 lb., is now slender, sharp-featured, vivacious. Definitely wooden as an actress, she displays a Mid-western twang when speaking, is at ease only when singing arias from Mignon and Les Huguenots, beside which the popular concoctions written for the film are apt to seem unusually hollow...