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Some weeks ago (TIME, March 1) 19-year-old Marion Nevada Talley, daughter of a Kansas City telegrapher, made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. She had sung in opera only twice before, with a small civic company in her home town. She was thoroughly inexperienced in the woes and wiles of operatic routine. But U. S. newspapermen seized upon her, made her their best news, roused a great public to have an exorbitant pride in a person it had never heard sing...
...Calve, living now in retirement on the Riviera, took it more personally. For had not she and her sisters in singing had years of preparation before they were ready for the Metropolitan? She was indignant, protested last week against the system which would permit of such a premature Metropolitan debut. Said she: "No singer should be subjected to such a test without at least ten years' preparatory work on other stages. . . . Too much publicity at an early age and not enough hard work are the ailments affecting the present generation of vocal students. When I was a student every waking...
...Angeles, Trainer Louis Roth cracked his whip over a tigress making her circus debut, was flattened on the tanbark by a snarling catapult. Nimble, he regained his feet and with face, head, arms, shoulders spurting blood, lashed the cat into submission...
...propensities originated from a spiritual awakening. "An expert child dancer at eleven", to quote her own middest words, a chance visit to a revival meeting "caused something all of a sudden to happen inside her." After she had thus perceived the hollowness of mundane life and renounced it, her debut in her new role was dramatic. Suddenly appearing in a railway yard at lunch hour, she began to preach to the workers. One o'clock came but no whistle blew. Uldine's words had held all the workers enthralled. Out stalked an angry boss to discover what the trouble...
...Legendary gallant of dissolute proclivities, whose story found currency in many European literatures before Byron's 19th Century lady-killer appeared. His Spanish debut...