Word: debutant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could be made both mature and witty is a proposition most cinema critics would deny. Yet this is such a film, directed by Hobart Henley, feelingly played by actors from the legitimate theatre. Claudette Colbert's wide-set eyes, tender voice and Gallic smartness herein make their screen debut. Graciously she suggests the thoroughbred woman who may be kept but who will ultimately be married by any sensible keeper. The corporation lawyer so fortunate as to convert his woman into his wife is played by Walter Huston who last week delighted Manhattan in person in The Commodore Marries...
...theme idea of the Dawes debut speech last month (TIME, July...
...Mario Chamlee, mechanically inclined, examined garages as well as houses, found what he wanted in Highland Park. Friends heard he was going to build himself an airplane. Marouf will be repeated at Ravinia for Tenor Chamlee who recently scored a successful Paris debut in that opera. Another Highland Parker is Mme. Yvonne Gall, fresh from Paris. She will be seen and heard in Paul Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bhie...
...round off his diplomatic debut, Hustler Dawes added this final fillip: "I consider that the time of old-fashioned diplomats is over and that people like myself, who are not careerists, have an opportunity for settling the affairs of the world...
...Metropolitan audition was the result of a word whispered into official ears by Caruso himself. Without having learned an operatic role, with but six months to study grand opera methods, she was given a contract straightaway. She made her debut (1918) opposite Caruso, in the Verdi opera called La Forza del Destino-The Power of Fate...