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...first time it meant the opera debut of Marion Talley, so sensationalized by the Press that headline readers were led to believe that this Kansas City telegrapher's daughter must be the world's greatest singer. Three years later when the bubble was thoroughly pricked and Marion Talley was richer by half a million dollars, she suddenly announced that she was through with singing. This time she was attempting a come back with the newborn Chicago Grand Opera (TIME, Jan. 1). And if there were no mounted police to drive off the crowds who could...
...past four years Marion Talley has lived a life of mystery, in sharp contrast to her early days at the Metropolitan when every Talley doing was stretched into a human interest story. When she retired she announced that she was going to farm and farm she did. She bought 1,600 wheat acres in Colby, Kans., made them pay until last summer when the crops were blown out of the ground. The 3,000 bushels left she was shrewd enough to save for seed, got $1 per bushel...
...Soprano Maria Jeritza, who opened many a Metropolitan season, was to sing the first night in Tosca. Mario Chamlee, John Charles Thomas and Grace Moore were listed for later on. Edith Mason and Rosa Raisa, two of Insull's singers, were back New Year's Eve Marion Talley will sing in Rigoletto, the opera in which she made her sensational Metropolitan debut seven years ago (TIME, March 1, 1926) For four years Miss Talley has been in re tirement, ostensibly wheat-farming in Kansas. Because farming has not proved so profitable as singing she is attempting a comeback...
...boosted by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. Kansas City's last symphonic venture (two concerts by the Kansas City Musicians Association) was sponsored by Conrad Henry Mann shortly before he was indicted under the Federal lottery law. Before that the Chamber's favorite was Soprano Marion Talley, a local telegrapher's daughter whose career Storeman Seigmund Harzfeld helped to finance. This year's music chief is doughty Powell Campbell Groner, president of Kansas City Public Service Co. Burned though he was from going to sleep under an ultraviolet lamp, he appeared last week in Convention...
Marriage Annulled. Marion Talley Raucheisen, 26, Kansas City's coloratura soprano (Metropolitan Opera Company debut, 1926; retirement, 1929); and Michael Raucheisen, 43, German pianist; in Long Beach. Calif. Grounds: immediately after the wedding last June, the groom ordered out the bride's mother & sister...