Word: debut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ailsa and her younger brother Paul were to divide their time equally between father and mother. This they did, at first, but as she grew up, the affection lavished upon Ailsa by her father drew her most closely to him. After schooling at home and abroad and making her debut in Pittsburgh, she became his constant companion and the chatelaine of his sumptuous mansion...
...native Atlantans made their debut last week with the Metropolitan Opera Company in the first performance there of Massenet's Don Quichotte, second offering in the annual week of opera. One was a proud, polite horse chosen to carry Feodor Chaliapin, chivalric Knight of the Rueful Countenance. One was a scrubby, taupe donkey chosen for Giuseppe de Luca, the faithful squire. Came the second act with the Don on the quest of his lady's necklace. Came the scene where he sees windmills through the mist, takes them for menacing giants, mounts Rosinante and charges. Rosinante played his part well...
...week following Raquel Meller's $27.50 debut, a Manhattan gum- chewers' sheetlet, the Mirror, was out with the news that she was a "flop."* Speculators were described as anguished because they could not unload admissions to her expensive performances ($11 after the opening). Large pictures were displayed of Meller and Irene Bordoni side by side. Bordoni is the wife of E. Ray Goetz, Meller's importer. Was Bordoni vexed, asked the sheetlet, because her husband had presented, so sensationally, this Spanish onion...
With the acclaim of audiences from New York to Detroit still ringing in their ears, the Hasty Pudding players will make their Boston debut this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the Hollis Street Theatre...
...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...