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Marion Nevada Talley, youngest man or woman in Who's Who, makes more money than most of that distinguished company. Just old enough to vote, she has earned $334,892 in the last two years in addition to her Metropolitan Opera salary. Buxom sweet singer from the middle west, she is sought for concerts the country over. The figure was divulged last week by concert manager Francis C. Coppicus with whom Miss Talley is about to part on none too friendly terms...
...Miss Talley has been singing all her life. She said, "At eleven I started studying, and since that time have been continually striving to improve. My year abroad taught me much and opened for me many fine opportunities...
...Fifty per cent of the ability of the internationally known opera and concert singers in innate. The other half is acquired through good hard work, and application of the principles taught by master teachers." Such is the opinion of Marion Talley of the Metropolitan Opera Company, expressed in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday afternoon in Symphony Hall after her first public appearance in Boston...
...Miss Talley believes that for the best of musical training, especially for the development of the voice, all those who are able should study in Europe. "The famed teachers abroad have a knowledge of the art of teaching and of musical technique that few, if any, in this country possess," she stated. "So many of the American masters try to teach those under their tutelage by inspiring them, that they often fail to strike the true essence of the art. Artists learn through teaching; not, through inspiration...
...Vitaphone is the most successful of all devices for the joint reproduction of motion pictures and sound. Famed artists recording for Vitaphone: Marion Talley, Al Johson, Elsie Janis, Mischa Elman...