Word: debut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiftieth annual edition of the University Register made its debut yesterday. The volume was edited this year by R. R. Wiener '20, who under took its publication when the student editors resigned a year...
...University basketball quintet will make its unofficial debut at 8 o'clock tonight, when five former Harvard stars invade Hemenway Gymnasium to play their first public game against Harvard. The game is not on the regular schedule, but Coach Wachter will send his first-string team on the floor and the game will be played with an official referee and all the appearances of an opening game. It will be open to the public free of charge...
...Jenufa is "undoubtedly one of her finest accomplishments." Janacek, the composer, and Jeritza are compatriots. Jeritza was born and brought up in Brünn, the little town in Czecho-Slovakia where Janáćek has spent the greater part of his life. She made her operatic debut in Olmütz, from there she went to the Vienna Volksopcr (People's Opera) and thence to the Hofoper (Imperial Court Opera). She would have come to the U. S. in 1914, but the War intervened and her Metropolitan début was postponed...
Last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Mme. Toti dal Monte, Venetian soprano, made her debut. Because of the liberal praise accorded her when, with the Chicago Opera Company, she made her first U. S. appearance a month ago, critics regarded her interestedly. As Lucia di Lammermoor, ever-distressed lady who goes mad in her attempt to sound like a flute, Mme. Dal Monte cadenzaed, bravuraed, languished, trilled, palpitated. Her hands were expressive, her figure squat, her voice limpid. Loud, long was the applause. "Cordial," the critics termed it, reserving their other adjective, "unprecedented," for dead debuts, for debuts...
...platform of Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, stood a tall Russian. He had sparkling eyes, thin hands, greying hair, a tailor. He was Serge Koussevitzky, new conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, making his Manhattan debut. With uncommon dignity he turned his back on the notable company assembled in that hall, raised his arms. Rank on rank behind him stood, sat, lounged, the many who had come to see whether the Boston Symphony had any chance of regaining the haughty place it held before Dr. Karl Muck went to Fort Oglethorpe under the Espionage act in 1917, whether it were true that...