Word: debut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swept onto Broadway with the growing tide of English hit plays, London Producer John Fernald, 56, who is making his American directing debut with a stage adaptation of C. P. Snow's novel, The Affair, had a few pronunciamentos on theater in the colonies. On U.S. actors: "They lack precision." On Tennessee Williams: "A very tedious phenomenon...
While Davis was rehearsing with a mixed cast on Long Island, Dorothy Dandridge made her debut at the Highland Park, III., Music Theater as West Side Story's Anita, a Puerto Rican role. Such occasional successes only heighten the general sense of frustration that Negro actors share. Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis in summer stock can be accounted for by their great box office appeal. But for the journeyman Negro actor-and even for such established Negro stars as Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil and Diahann Carroll-there is a disconcerting scarcity of parts. "It's very discouraging," says...
...drums), James learned most of his art on his own. His father bought him his first set of real drums only a few months ago, and though James is still too short to sit down behind them, he has already surpassed his father as a drummer. On his television debut he appeared with his mother to play Caravan, treated his listeners to a long solo break that sounded like Krupa. "He's a great little ham," said the station's delighted program director, who stole time from Lionel Hampton's band to make room for James...
...Regiment, Marcel Duchamp's stroboscopic Nude Descending a Staircase strode jerkily into public awareness; Tin Pan Alley came up with That Futuristic Rag; and the nation was swept up in a fever of excitement over something called Modern Art. Of the many artists who rallied behind this great debut of modernism, one stands as the prime mover: Arthur Bowen Davies...
...poor and sometimes challenged by a passing plane. It is a rare summer's night when more than 8,000 New Yorkers feel like making their way there, but for some artists, the crowds fill Lewisohn to its brim. Last week Australian Soprano Joan Sutherland made her stadium debut-and, despite the fact that the concert had to be postponed one night, she sang to the season's record house...