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o -——— Marion Talley Abandons Opera . Career for Quiet Life on Farm Young Opera Singer to| Retire Early Next Month | Worth Half Million After Three Years, New York, April 12 (—Marion Talley, youlhful Metropolitan opera tar, whose brought phenomenal carcer her a fortune in three years, has decided to retire farm. Estimates are that her golden voice has made $500,000. Since she is only 23 years old and | presumably in years to come could | earn hundreds of thousands more, | she has amazed her concert manager | and her friends with the atatement: “I have made up my mind to re- tire from the professional stage. By this, T mean all operatic appear- ances as well. My retigement will bs | 1 am going west with my fam. | fly. The farm might be in fornia, and it might be in Colorado, but I am going to look @rst in the middle west. 1 am going to be just like all other farmers.” Her last appearance Cleveland where she will sing in “Lucia” May 4. Her engagemen with the Metropolitan expires with will be at that appearance. “’0" NMiss Talley came from ity Mo to"ma STYLE X at the |10 act. Still another report was that | and 3 1926, fownsmen came o augment the |stunt designed to obtain for Miss (omer T ever had.” ECONOMY : thousands who stormed the opera house that night and accorded her | thunderous acclaim for her Gilda in “Rigoletto.” Born in Nevada, Mo., Miss Talley Fave promise of musical talent at| an early age. $he sang popular songs at two, began the study of the piano five and the violin when she W Pven. attacks germs. To combat dandruff you simply douse it on full strength and massage the scalp vigor- ously. Keep the treatment up systematically. Unless the to a| Watch his head Tn 1922 she had her first audition before officlals of the Metropolitan. Her lyric soprano was favorably r ceived, and on advice of Mr. Gatti- | Casazza, general manager of the | Metropolitan, she continued her studies in New York and Europe. her net earnings under the manage- ment of ¥. C. Coppicus, head of the her concert career, which began in the spring of 1926, to February, | 1928, were $332,892. clusive of ler contracts with the Metropolitan Opera company. Retirement of a singer so early in a stellar career is unprecedented. Geraldine Farrar lcft the Metropoli- |tan, after attaining success com- | paratively young, but she was then |older than Miss Talley is now. Aad |#he has continued in concert since then. Other noted singers have |made public appearances well into | middle age. | The New York World said today | in regard to Miss Talley: “Numerous rumors became cur- {rent as to the possible cause of her decision. One report had it that she |was fo appear in the talkies. An-| |other was that the singer, despite | the continued enthysiasm of her public, was herself dissatisfied with the progress she had made in ©er singing—: Talley more and fatter cont Special Come to the supper ciety at the Sw ny church, 29, from Adults 50c; children Evan- Simply delighted Experienced shavers are simply delighted with LISTERINE SHAVING CREAM. 8o cool. So refreshing. It was announced a year ago that Metropolitan musical bureau, from | RIVAL OF ‘TEXAS Liquor Nuisance Charge New York, Texas was acquitted. Miss Morgan, & popular musical charged with comedy actress, is maintaining a nuisance through of liquor at the Heclen Morgan at which she was hostess. She the night club business after arrest last fall. Texas was acquitted yesterday In 64 minutes by a jury of middle- !aged men who took but two ballots [None had ever been to a night club The verdict was greeted with eries of “Whoopee” by the spectators and distributed kisses ators and jurymen. | Texas among lavishly Freedom Costs $50,000 | Her only regret, Texas said, {that by her acquittal she lost 000 t ne ri of articles on life '0 Norman J. Morrison, in jail. ALSO T0 BE TRIED Helen Morgan Pleads Monday to; April 12 (®—Helen Morgan, singer of plaintiff melodies | and the only woman ever to threat- | en the laurels of Texas Guinan as the most popular night club hostess | on Broadway, will on Monday stand This was ex- |trial on the same charge of which | had been offered her b aper syndicate to write a se- | |to the darice floor while the orch s ‘;nhl rr1ld frou iis lg gt atrieture) Conna s JWio discovered. (o o May flower® tra played the “Prisoner Song” and land slender teg bone cther it | his Florida home a few years aso. b the audience rose and cheered. | ossessed 3 Bup s ol i Will Li coneert l | I won today. ] am grateful,” she It | r]SH COMBAT HI'mp;; Y.or don. Avril 12 |said. Many telcgrams of congratula- l [] I fl “This camel, * v ccount of the vo, |tion were received. \o,. .‘Nmml. curs = t | i of @ mass aniwals that tlo Prisoner Requests Court' [nhabited E"rglades of Hall in riorida. Other rossits tnciud: | quitoes With Finned neings tm- 00 For Long Rest, Then Dies | mammoths, mastodons, saber-toot's- _The book u San Francisco, April 12 (UP)— MI“IOI] Ym Ago | ed tigers, extinet species of horses poirted from Hawaiiag Ilznds, 1 an |The wish of John Miner, 72, for and dire wolves. These wolves Werel oo e o : he n : a long, long rest came true, He| larger "‘1‘1"‘ present _d'.v_\ timber | iy s 3 . 4 idied. e 3 : .| wolves. Their name ‘dire’ is a cor- tanpt to use fish from the Huwaiian : | Arrested and brousht before Po- ew York, Aprik 13 UP—A camel | |, pion o (e Latin word dirus. | Istands to combat 3 llice Judge George Stelger, Jr., on|1a8 been discovered which lived In |y eaning terridle. Riviera begins thi ! - ; la vagrancy charge, Miller told the |lush moisture m Florida a halt mil-| whe moist climate Florida is The fish, knoan : B : court: lions years ago. known to have had is no handicap ous cater < s-| A s of Lead Sol: “I'm tired, hungry. and old—too| It is among « collection of fossils to the prescrvation of fossil-bones The barrier fo its i Hw tory Teaching old for this world. I need a long. that the Ameri:an Museum of Nat- although it is easier to recover such 1S bee the colder ut 3 # e long rest.” The aged man then {county jail. | the request. Immediately after Judge sale cluh “ntence jcourt for a 30-day sentence in the siger granted | quit | passed the aged man collapsed. He her died in the judge's chambers. The 30-day sentence was vacated. More than 18,000 bath tubs, ucd at $600,000, foreign countries in 1928, \nq‘ She then issued an invitation to | all present, law ‘ spectators, to p: her new night club. jurors The “coming out” party, as Texas n by the [termed it, was attended by a crowd | ] that taxed the capacity of the club | Texas, attired in a gown of |tulle and satin with stockings check dandr llff Youngsters usually get dandruffat school; promiscuous use of combs, towels, etc., - brings it on. At the first sign of it, go efter it with Listerine, the safe antiseptic, for dandruff is & germ disease and Listerine case is a very serious one, requiring the attention of a physician, you will note improvement within ten days. Laboratory tests show that Listerine destroys even the stubborn Staphylococcus Au- reus (pus) and Bacillus Ty- phosus (typhoid) germs— 200,000,000 of them in 15 seconds. Lambert Pharmacal Com- pany, St. Louis, Mo., U.S. A. THE SAFE ANTISEPTIC LISTERINE kills 200,000,000 germs in 15 seconds % GARDEN WHEELBARROWS $4 2 -nd \TEFL RAKES 85C and " While They Lnst' HESSLER RURAL MAIL BOXES 75(: each 30-34 DWIGHT A GOOD PLACE TO BUY YOUR Hardware and Paint Supplies SPECIAL For 1 Week 1 50-ft. length High Grade GARDEN HOSE With Cast Brass Hose X Nozzie Regular Price $8.75 A Phone Call Will Have It Delivered FENCE Pittsburgh Lawn Plain and Barbed Wire Poultry Netting GARDEN SEEDS Fresh from Hart’s PAINTS and VARNISHES Quality at a Fair Price Carlson Hardware & Paint Co. PHONE 6360 the evening at | hoes to match, made her entrance and | red | and | SATURDAY 9a.m to9p. m Beautiful ensem- bles and jacket modes. . . . Sold ecerywhere as feature at $25.00. Such Fashion! Fine Tailoring! coats as these! EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIL | ural History is asked the |tion with Florida geologists. This wet camel is a new species. 1t is found along with geological in- | dications that Florida for a half mil- was | lions years at least has had a climate (about like that of today. with no Dr. S8impson is on an expedition fish geserts for cameis to roam in, or in Florida this spring working flourish cqua even arid conditions. around Tallahassee with Dr. Herr inches of ice or The camel is ahout the size of a Gunter. state geologist. and about St. | are Nama, 168 MAIN STREET | val " May 4. Her engagement | the ress i ) special | % tore > Me an expi ith singi explanation that would deputy United States attorney gen- | ; conform with opinions of the critics oral, who prosecuted her, she said: | ralley e Kansas | who asserted her voice was cold and | I want to thank you. You were | QUAlm . to make a §100.000 debut | Inflexible and that she was unabls s perfect gentieman.” | Metropolitan February 17, “Miss Guinan,” said the prosecu- | A trainload of her fellow the announcement was a publicity | tor, “you were the toughest cus- | sm“cf I FIFTH AVENUE FASHIONS ENSEMBLES 95 { DOWNSTAIRS ARCADE 1 SEASON’S SMARTEST SPRING COATS Such Quality! Such We doubt whether $35.00 ever bought such remarkable OTHER COATS up to $79.50 its hody about the height of were shipped to a horse, but its head standing high- | W. er on a long meck. APRIL studying in conjunc- | relics in an arid country. 1In Florida they are found a few feet helow the surface. Weil-digging, dred excavations in phosphate beds uncovered most of the sours discovered, numbering about 50.” Two years Mont.: from Honolu'u in warm wate Petersburg an i Sarasota with Walter Holmes. Mr. Hoimes is a re- tired manufacturer of Waterbury. 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