Word: talleys
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...only fault. The short features, which will remain without much change for the two weeks' run, are a curious conglomeration with good ideas weakened by being too drawn out. The first is a novelty orchestra. Then follows an admirable feature, the Quartet from "Rigoletto", with Gigli and Marion Talley. Krazy Kat, is the next. The last short has a catchy tune spoiled by a poor story and overacting...
...familiar names are absent from the list of members for next season: Florence Easton, soprano, has asked for a year's rest; Titta Ruffo, baritone, has gone into the "talkies"; Feodor Chaliapin will not return until season after next; Marion Talley is retiring" to a farm...
...Board of Directors, Otto H. Kahn. And in that over-stuffed audience were heard the boastings of the Mayor and 200 citizens of Kansas City who had paid $50,000 for a special train to carry them there for the great night. Kansas City had found Marion Talley. Kansas City had launched her, backed her. Kansas City was there to share in the glory...
Front pages the next day streamed with the news. The wires rushed the story around the world. Jenny Lind, Galli-Curci, Marion Talley ... the man in the street learned a new name. Overnight the 19-year-old girl became a national institution...
...like the way she has been received and she has, like the overfed child, a dislike for all the present life. . . . I see a cynicism in her manner, a tightness in her face, a tortured look. The impulse which has sent women to the nunnery ... is pushing Marion Talley now. It is a psychological case if the farm plan is sincere ; it is another ballyhoo, like the original Chamber of Commerce stunt, if it is not." Said Manager Gatti-Casazza: "I do not understand. I have always been like a father...