Show Singers Singer's Saga Reaches New Climax n 3 d ae s 's y ti y t OY t jj 3 f Y 4 r M X r l m my y y y yr 3 r S. S V Y r hn w LS M. M i F Associated Press Photo LITTLE GIRL GIRI IS PRIZE OF BITTER CONTEST Marion Talley and her daughter Susan Marion Talley Charges s Mate Is Blackm Blackmailer iler HOLLYWOOD Feb 6 UP uP- uP Marion Talley Thursday charged her husband with offering to keep quiet on his accusations against her herand herand herand and seven different men men men-if if shed she'd give him cash and custody of their child The Missouri girl who became a Metropolitan Opera diva told the superior court she considered this offer blackmail She turned It t down Her husband Adolf Eckstrom Eckstrom Eckstrom Eck- Eck strom New York music teacher then named the she hp said In HA Hp accused s d her r of oTa acts i- i of f misconduct i o- o od d t with them all f i That turned the case into a transcontinental name-calling name con- con test est Prize was year old Susan Both parents want her Sus Susan n now is with her mother mothern in n Beverly Hills while a New York I judge decides whether she is fit to keep her Eckstrom charged she Is s not because of those seven men Calls Him lIim Blackmailer The year old Miss Talley who Is s seeking a divorce here on ground of cruelty filed with the court amplification amplification am- am of her charges against Eckstrom whom she now called a blackmailer She said that in 1936 her husband husband hus- hus band and said she either would give him lim their child and the or oric he ic would see that she got some malicious publicity publicity- She said she turned him down Three years later latera a New York court gave her custody custody cus- cus tody ody of their child chUd Four months ago when she filed her divorce suit here she said her husband renewed his threats She said aid he told her that unless he got Susan he would file an action namIng naming nam- nam Ing ng her and the seven men The saga of the the- Kansas City telegraphers telegrapher's daughter who became an opera star overnight t seemed to tobe tobe tobe be reaching one unhappy climax after another Made but One For nearly a de decade ade she sang in o opera era Then Metro-Goldwyn- Metro Mayer ayer brought her here to be be a movie star starved her into slimness slimness slimness slim- slim ness and never used her in a single single single sin sin- gle picture She went over to Republic Republic Republic Re Re- public studios in n 1936 where re she starred in one film By then she was having husband trouble with the man man who had given her voice lessons in New York She has appeared intermittently intermittently intermittently intermit intermit- in court ever since Ht Her r only recent professional appearances have been on the radio |