Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-02
America Frankly Very Proud
OF Marion Talley's Triumph

America is very proud Of Marion
Talley. In the words of the Detroit
News, 1.-The United States joins
Kansas City in congratulations on
the success of the girl of the Middle
West who at 10 has become a Metro
politan opera star with such an ac
claim as New York probably never
has accorded another singer. The
press delights in the romantic story
of the simple, sensible girl who wears
her honors becomingly and finds great
satisfaction in the triumph of ma
tive artist.
Miss Talley's success" the Canton
Daily News believes, rs due not so
much to the fact that she possesses
a wonderful musical voice as that she
has offered 1t at a time when there
has come q universal demand for
recognition of that which Is Ameri-
CT. Aided by the spirit Of the time
she has at single step reached the
place other American artists, per
haps older but just as talented, have
failed to gain after years of effort.
Her triumph is her own, but 1t Is a
triumph for all American artists, tor
the parents who aided her and for
the home town which made her be-
ginning and her education possible.
1t Is, moreover, the triumph OF
youth"
Neither genius nor effort is in
vain in America to those who can
and will" declares the Pittsburgh
sun. The Nashville Banner finds 1t
especially gratifying that Amen
cans are now willing to receive Their
own without discrimination and the
Jersey City Jersey Journal calls the
"plaudits of the 1000 in the opera
house an echo of those of the Amefl-
can people, who look forward with
pride to the prospect of adding an
ether American name to the charmed
circle of opera stars of the first mag
nitude. still composed largely OF ar
lists of the Old World"
1.-THE best of training may be MAD
in America says the San FraEclSco
bulletin "and now that New YORK
is prepared to listen to native talent
with it's own ears and not wait 1or
q European verdict, we can give our
singers a reputation as Well as d
training" The Richmond News
Leader adds that 1.-The discovery OF
Marion Talley has enriched the Ma
ton" and "once more the ola 1alry
story or C1nQeFelid mas SOtS
The South Bend Tribune speaks OF
"the cordiality and good will OF thou
sands of men and women represent
ing the average life of the Middle
West" The Albany Evening News
exclaims. "Three cheers for Marion
TaIIev and three cheers for Kansas
CYtv which would undertake Il
municipal enterprise like this''
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The Chicago Daily News observes
that "Kansas City has put over
s,,ccess that many a seasoned must
cian would have declared impossible"
Tba Omaha World Herald finds that
"tha nopular imagination has seldom
heen stirred as it has been by the
story of Marion Talley," and expressed
admiration for the music critic whose
discovery of a voice has been reward
cd in the achievement. To the Evans
Vile Courier there is cause for re-
ioicing in IAN end to foreign domina-
ton of American music"
The Wichita Beacon points out that
one fine thing about it all is that
Miss Talley did not find it necessary
to change her name to Tallerino or
Marina" The Utica Observer Dis
patch, conceding that Kansas City
has right to be proud of her daugh-
ter. let's it be known that Utica also
has it's claims, for wasn't it John. r.
Jones, a former Utican, who discover