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...Miss Witwer's father, the mechanic, had told her after the concert: "You sang like a gol-durn angel." It became obvious that Miss Witwer was being groomed to enter the list of artistically mediocre "favorite daughters" of U. S. opera. Like Grace Moore (TIME, Feb. 20), Marion Talley (TIME, March 1, 1926), she would make her debut surrounded with newspaper reporters and home folks. If she made her debut at the Metropolitan (Otto Kahn, Chairman), opera-devotees would again make puns about "You Kahn or you Kahn't," or "What's the matter with Witwer...
...demands a number of reliable, thoughtful, and obliging men who will be present promptly on Sunday mornings. This year the committee has been composed, of C. H. Jones '28. Tiimothy Cleary '29, C. B. Garey '29, Gordon Huggins '29, C. D. Madsen '29, R. E. Merry '29, W. W. Talley '29, and J. K. Hurd '30. Four or five others have also volunteered for the special carol services, and occasional Sundays when the chapel has been unusually crowded. Special thanks are due to C. B. Garey '29 who took complete charge during the six weeks of illness of the chairman...
...Manhattan they had it that Marion Nevada Talley would not receive a renewal of her contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company, that if she sang there at all it would be as "guest" and only for two or three performances, that the name Talley made two seasons ago by an uncritical press would no longer be a big money-maker in Manhattan. The Talleys answered back-to the effect that quite the contrary was true. Signer Gatti-Casazza, master of the Metropolitan, seized another opportunity to remain silent...
City editors of newspapers throughout the land stole into the music departments last week, found an unimportant story, stole it, slapped it into their front pages. It was no new theft. They did the same thing when Marion Talley made her debut two seasons ago at the Metropolitan, and presently the telegrapher's daughter from Kansas City was making hundreds of thousands of dollars. They did it for. Mary Lewis, the runaway girl from Little Rock, Ark., who slipped overnight from the ranks of a Ziegfeld chorus to the bosom of grand opera. They repeated it again last week...
Marion Nevada Talley, 21, buxom, sweet-voiced soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, openly broke last week with her concert manager, Francis C. Coppicus. He is said to have told the public that Miss Talley was going to retire from concert singing for one year in order to study, that she had earned $334,892 from her concerts during the last two years (in addition to her Metropolitan Opera salary). Miss Talley resented this "gross breach of confidence," said: "In order to get rid of him [Coppicus], because I was dissatisfied with the work he was doing...