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...Maher, making his season's debut today. He is Harvard's best punter and is favored to outkick the Wah-Hoo-Wah booters...
...Manhattan last week, Marion Talley, 18-year-old soprano from Kansas City, Mo., daughter of a telegraph operator on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, who will make her debut in February with the Metropolitan, was interviewed. Said she: "I don't care for social affairs . . . . I am not interested in sports . . . . I do not like clothes. My sister Florence makes everything I wear . . . ." Soprano Talley is a tightlipped, strapping girl with auburn hair...
Neal O'Hara reported for the Boston Post while he was in college and since his graduation has done work for many publications; among others, the New York World and Life. Last year he made a great success in his debut on the vaudeville stage as a monologist. This will be the first time that the Union has been able to secure Mr. O'Hara as a speaker...
...musical press, last week, had an assignment that warmed their cockles like Chianti. Steinway hall was being abandoned. After 59 years of brave nights, this place, where Charles Dickens, in a shaky voice, read from his notes; where Fritz Kreisler, a shaggy boy of 13, made his Manhattan debut; where sang Christine Nilsson, the Swedish Nightingale; this place of tarnished gilt and outworn elegance, smelling of twilight, was to be left to the bludgeonings of the real-estate auctioneer. The inextinguishable appeal of extinguished gallantry wrung the hearts of the human interest writers who briefly noted the fact that Steinway...
Elizabeth Rethberg, also of the Metropolitan, had her London debut, too, in Aida. London Times: "The conspicuous thing in the diva's singing is its independence of the mere effect of climaxes. She leads one on from point to point through expansion of Verdi's melody...