Word: debut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Nora Bayes, 47, famed and beautiful actress in vaudeville and musical comedies, from the results of an abdominal operation performed at the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn. In 1907 she made her Manhattan debut in the first edition of the Ziegfeld Follies. She was five times married. When her hair turned grey at an early age she made the color fashionable instead of making it different with dyes. Her Manhattan apartment had a "Welcome" mat at its door for all impoverished actors. The day before she went to the hospital she appeared in a benefit performance...
Soprano Ada Sari, famed in Europe, made her U. S. debut in a Manhattan concert last week, won a considerable ovation for an undistinguished performance...
...twins, Roszicka & Janszieka Deutsch, migrated to the U. S., and transformed themselves into "Rosie & Jennie Dolly" when they made their joint debut at Keith's Union Square Theatre, Manhattan, in 1909. So instantaneous was their dancing hit that, within three years they had appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of Manhattan and at the Moulin Rouge, famed Paris music hall...
Despite the preoccupations of its plot, this drama is as innocuous and sweet as vanilla ice-cream. June Walker plays the part of Sir Basil's U. S. representative with soft and flexible insouciance. Bred in Chicago, she made her stage debut in the chorus of Hitchy Koo, and has since taken its verbal last syllable for a motto. Often, she coos the most extravagant slang that can be found for her tissue-paper tongue to enwrap. She has done this in Six Cylinder Love, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Love Nest...
...Taft's young niece Elinor Herron, also came into the public eyes last week, when she paraded at a Chicago fashion show in silk bloomers and a smoking jacket. It was her debut as a mannequin. Miss Herron, versatile, has studied ballet dancing in Paris intends to be an architect...