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...train. Eighty other women hoped to sing in that one performance of A'ida but Housewife WTallack won the contest with her strong, clear tones. Asked for an interview, Impresario Paul Sydow refused in her behalf. Said he: "I don't want her to go like Marion Talley. Besides, she has enough to do to learn her part in ten days." In this same favorite opera, Soprano Anna Turkel of Woonsocket, R. I. touched fame by a triumph in the Cairo opera house witnessed by U. S. Minister William M. Jardine, Prime Minister Ismail Sidky Pasha and many...
...Three years later she was summering in Verona with the Zenatellos, building her weight up to 105 pounds, preparing costumes and studying the roles she was engaged to sing her first year at the Metropolitan. Fortunately she was spared the Chamber of Commerce ballyhoo which spoiled Colora tura Marion Talley. After her debut Talley found herself in shoes too big for her but she became high-handed nevertheless, refused advice, in three years was out of the Metropolitan. Coloratura Pons has yet to prove herself. But on the night of her debut after she had been in bed a half...
Marion Nevada Talley, Kansas farmerette, onetime soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, went to Manhattan to make a series of phonograph records. Said she: "I never knew just what made me leave the grand opera stage. ... I couldn't say that I'll never go back. . . . You know, it's a woman's privilege...
...This is the life!' trilled buxom Marion Nevada Talley, onetime Metropolitan Opera soprano, as she plumped into the seat of a harvester combine and prepared to help bring in a wheat crop estimated at 200,000 bushels on her ranch at Colby...
...Colby's Chamber of Commerce motto used to be: "Colby, The Taxless Town." Now it is: "Colby, The Home of Marion Talley...