| Show RJ f Cf- Cf CRITICS s Marion Talley Seeks Favor Favor Favor Fa Fa- Fa- Fa vor as as' Prima Donna DonnaTO DonnaTO TO fO TAKE LEAD LEAD LEADIN IN RIGOLETTO F Father ather Hopes to Wire W World orId of Success Success' NEW YORK Feb 11 17 AP AP- AP Marlon Marion Talley 19 year old year old soprano of Kansas City Mo 1 f facing the golden horseshoe of the Metropolitan itan cp ra house as Gilda llda In Rigoletto Rigoletto Rigo letto Jetto will make her debut debut tonight as the newest American prima donna Her lIer parents and several hundred d proud joud i fpud frIe friends ds and neighbors willbe will willbe be e there to p pay y her tribute 9 I The most calm and dispassionate In N New w York i is Marion Marlon Talley ralley all y herself She spent pen a quiet evening at home with her parents her sister and anda a few friends She has hap kept kept in retIrement retirement the last few weeks during her Inte Intensive tice She asked that her mother be In Inthe inthe inthe the wings during the performance tonight explaining she wanted heras heras her heras as n near ar as ns possible Mrs Talley Isone is isone isone one of ot fifteen Ameen children In the family fam Lam ill ily of a a. German shoemaker who LEAVES KEY FOR DAY Charles M. M Talley the singers singer's father came on the Marion Marlon Talley Talley Tal Tal- ley Icy special with a delegation of Kansas City folk yesterday He left lett his telegraph key In the Missouri Pacific offices for his first real reala vacation vacation va a va- va cation In nineteen years ears A former Associated Press operator operator operator oper oper- ator Mr Talley will return to his telegraph key tonight In the offices of ot the Associated Press where af- af Continued on page 6 SINGER TO FACE CRITICS TONIGHT Continued from page 1 1 ter the performance he heill will ill send out some of the details of his hla daughters daughter's debut Popular interest in Miss lIss Talleys Talley's debut Is the greatest since Enrico at the Metro Metro- Metropolitan poll politan tan Seats have been sold out for several da days s Only a few were were available from speculators who de demanded demanded demanded de- de 50 to each PROUD CHORISTER One of her most loyal followers is John R. R Jones who as choirmaster choirmaster choirmaster choir choir- master of the First Christian church in Kansas City noted her talents eight years yeal'S ago when she applied to him for a place in the choir As he describes her she was wasa wasa wasa a serious round-faced round child with curl curly hair hall who by hanging around finally won my sympathy I recognized something that was not in my whole choir he said It was something silvery and birdlike bird bird- like Mr Jones years ago prophesied that she would be in inthe inthe inthe the Metropolitan before she was 20 Gatti Casazza manager of me Metropolitan has predicted that is destined to do honor to her native natle na- na e tl country He made this re remark remark re- re mark when he anno announced her en engagement engagement engagement en- en last October after the audition arranged through Otto Kahn chairman of the Metropolitan by J. J A. A Harzfeld law partner of Mayor Major Beach of Kansas City and the girls girl's most enthusiastic patron pation for tor se eral years Were Vere not here for a claque said Mr Harzfeld Ve We wa want to see what New v York thinks of Marion We Ve really want to find out if the Metropolitan thinks as much of her as ve we do in Kansas City |
