Word: debutant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gladys Swarthout, young and comely Kansas City mezzo-soprano, donned drab grey for her Metropolitan debut, smeared her face with ash-colored chalk, sang the role of the blind mother in La Gioconda. Her acting, typically operatic, was credible. Her voice, though sometimes unsteady, was agreeable...
Soprano Hallie Stiles, who was to have made her Chicago debut in the season's first Romeo et Juliet, was ill, postponed her appearance until...
Emil Cooper, famed Russian conductor who has introduced much Slavic music to Western Europe, made his U. S. debut. While laymen in the audience concentrated on the amateurish antics of Singer McCormic, critics marked Conductor Cooper's bright tempo, his fine sense of balance...
...Tobacco Heiress" began to smoke cigarets. Miss Shotwell's appearance in Vienna was a triumph. . . . Miss Shotwell's tour . . . was the event of the Riviera season. . . . The outstanding surprise of the concert world is the American debut of Margaret Shotwell. . . . Though her fortune is founded on Camel Cigarets she is being importuned to recommend Lucky Strikes. . . Beautiful . . charming . . . gowns to match the moods of her composers . . . Charming . . . buoyant. . . . She exhibits her diary as simply as a little girl exhibits a broken doll...
Last week, at the Metropolitan's second performance, inevitably Die Meistersinger, Conductor Rosenstock made his debut. His appearance bore no resemblance to the proud, satanic figure of Bodanzky. Like a precocious, shy, near-sighted schoolboy he came out from under the stage, wangled his way almost apologetically through the string-players, bowed to a cordial hand-clapping. Out went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped...