| Show SEES PROFIT IN CRITICS SHAFTS Young Opera Star Does Docs Not Resent ism BY CHARLES FORREST Special Correspondent of The hc Standard Examiner Copyright 2926 By The Th Consoli Consolidated dated Press Association NEW TORK YORK Feb 20 Life ZO Ion lone feuds feuda feud between tat tal tal singers ln ers and hard boiled news news- newspaper news news-aper paper critics have hav grown crown out of loss less s than the th New York music writers have had bad to say about Marion Marlon Talley the th year old year 11 choir girl from Cram Kansas City whose debut as ae a a Metropolitan opera star thiS thill week we k spec out spec out laded tho the most moat spectacular sp lar tar popular demonstration that sven even veo the great Caruso ever had But If It the th critics expected to get a a rise rl out of Miss Talley they were sorely disapPointed Not that she sh didn't read reali all the themore themore themore more oc or less caustic things they said about her Sh read them theme elen een en before she sh dipped into the heavily displayed front page stories her popular tri tri- triumph tn tri triumph from a a rehearsal at the Metropolitan in Lucia dt dl Lammer Lammer- moor Lammer-moor moor in which she Ibe b Is to make mk her second appearance on and with the th praise of at Signor Gatti-Casazza Gatti and Edward Zeig- Zeig Zeil-ler Zeil ler Metropolitan directors still sUII ringing In her ears Miss Mias Talley received the th writer today NOT lOT DOWN DOWA Hurt by the th criticisms Cu not said eald Miss Talley with witha witha a calm smile I 1 expect to profit by them I realize that I stilt lUll have much to learn My musical traIning has baa ha not been very exten extensive sive And I never forget torget tor for a minute what Caruso once said said- said that the th longer loncer he lived the th more he realized how much there ther was for him to learn Miss Talley didn't want to gO Into detail Into the criticisms criticism She merely smiled when an attempt was made to draw her out by a reminder that Samuel C had called clIed her top lop notes a little but add but Paul Morris had called her Just a a year old singer linger with such tault faults as usually befall youthful prodigies that Olin Olli Downes had bad said laid she lacked at present the artistic knowledge to tomake make mke the th most 0 of her gifts and that these and all the other crItics had agreed she sang sane sani a trifle oft off key at atI I times JusT BEGINNING G I hope hop to correct all those thole faults said Miss hiss lIas Talley Talky You know I haven't stopped topped work just because I ha have hae e had bad a Z Metropolitan debut That was I but wonderful wonderful after all It was waa just lust a start It Is precisely this Quality lri iii Miss th Talle-th the Talley-the Talley tha total la lack k of what i Is usually called tempera that ment-that ment that her herl advisers count counton counton counton on to reeks make mak her In time Urn so gorge Ioree ous ous a coloratura soprano that even the hardest boiled balled critic will not be b able to contrast her un- un unfavorably un unfavorably favorably with PaUl Patti or some som of at attile tile the other by tone stars On the th other hand one on or two ot of the th critics have hav Inferred Interred ever everso everso ver vero so o delicately that Miss Talleys Talley's lack JaCk of temperament Is one on of at atthe othe the things she must overcome It If she hopes to Keep on reigning as asa asa asa a queen among queens at the Met lolet In other words they sug- sug suggest suc-eest suc iest gest that she sh needs to quit being a simple unaffected Kansas City girl and develop her imagination to the th point WI wl- wl 1 c e she ehe he can throw herself with bandon bundon Into the roles she sh Is to sing JEST HOME GIRL Which ever school of thought Is right richt on this point It Is certain that Miss J Talley Tafley hunt hasn't developed any temperament yet She is II the same am simple unaffected hone home typo type of girl i that the writer found when he h IntervIewed her several months montha ago co Just after Signor Gatti had liven given her bel her wonderful chance Sh She hasn't bought any Rolls Royce or gar gor- gor gowns owns She Sh hasn't started smokIng or drinking or using cos- cos cos cas cosmetics She Sh Isn't the th least bit up stage star Father Talley the telegrapher Mother Iother Talley lahley the th chaperone chaperon and adviser sister later Florence Florenc who o is II acting II as a Interceptor of at the th hun hun- hundreds hun hundreds of telephone calls and per per- per personal conal visits Z Miss Talley Taller has haa dally daily all all the th rest nest of ot the th family Is II som somewhat aflutter over oven the th sensa sense sensation tion th the youthful prodIgy has hIlS stirred up But to all alt the Ule th fuss tuss and excitement nt seems seem just a part of the days day work You'd hardly think she realized she sh wa was the tho center of It all aU that she 1 Marion Talley was a a celebrity 00 on |
