Word: debut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should go to the Crimson battery. Herrmann on the mound kept the visiting batsmen helpless, allowing only four hits, and he would have let the invading nine down without a score had it not been for the loose fielding of his team mates. His battery mate, DeRham, celebrated his debut on the University nine by netting three hits in four times at bat, one of these a long home run into right field. He caught one man attempting to pilfer second base, and played an excellent game behind...
DeRham Will Make Debut...
...sprinkling of Italians, paid 200 francs ($10.00) for their seats-the highest price ever asked for an operatic performance in Paris. ¶The Paris Grand Opera Company, it is rumored, will give for the first time in more than 30 years Rossini's Barber of Seville for the debut of Mme. Luella Melius, U. S. coloratura soprano. Many times has M. Rouche, Director of the Opera, attempted to revive this work; on each occasion, one of the principals has fallen ill. Savoyards have murmured: "The Barber is a jinx." So formidable is this superstition that, if the Barber...
...Italy, for De Muro does not compromise. He was born in Sardinia, where his success with serenades was so embarrassing that his parents, people of quality, decided that it would perhaps be more becoming if he turned professional. In 1911, at the age of 28, he made his debut in the Costanzi Theatre at Rome, created a sensation which won him a three-year contract with La Scala. Now the royal families of Italy and Spain attend his concerts. When asked by pressmen why he had never sung at the Metropolitan, the cork came out of his bottle. Said...
When, in 1898, the waters of Havana Harbor were settling uncertainly over what was left of the battleship Maine and thousands of young bankers, brokers, litterateurs and demagogs abandoned their occupations to become chambermaids to mules, Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, soprano, made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan. Her bosom did not tremble nor her knees quiver as she thrilled the assemblage with the resonance, flexibility and persuasion of her voice, for she was, even then, no neophyte. She had done her Azucena in Trovatore 20 years earlier in Dresden, her Erda in London, Bayreuth and Berlin. Manhattan...