Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become an actress, falls in love with a hoofer and brings down the house on opening night remains as rooted as Narcissus. To the standard ingredients of the backstage formula, Letter of Introduction adds two interesting variants: the show in which Katherine Mannering (Andrea Leeds) makes her gala debut turns out to be a calamitous flop; and the hero of the story is not her erratic young fiance but an aging, bibulous matinee idol to whose portrayal Adolphe Menjou lends the Barrymore mannerisms that have become traditional for such roles since The Royal Family. These, and Director John Stahl...
While Hero Hartnett was the centre of a boisterous ring-around-a-rosy celebration at Wrigley Field just before his managerial debut in a double-header with the Dodgers (which they split), onetime Hero Charlie Grimm was on his way back to his Missouri farm. Mindful of his two pennants (1932 and 1935) and the enviable record of never finishing lower than third in the six years he managed the Cubs, Charlie Grimm smiled ruefully. "That's baseball." said...
Stiff-necked Back Bay society learned that Sally Clark, 18, younger sister of Mrs John Aspinwall Roosevelt, had walked into Boston's Ritz-Carlton, posed for pictures, then announced that she would this week make her debut not as a socialite but as a professional songstress on the Ritz's roof garden. Salary: $150 the first week, $200 the second, $250 thereafter. "I am not thinking of Hollywood," said she, last week, "I imagine that from time to time I shall see all my friends. But I am most interested in singing to the public...
...Washington Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean announced that Labor Leader John L. Lewis would be invited to her daughter Evalyn's Newport debut party, if & when she has one. Said the owner of the famed $300,000 Hope Diamond: "I am devoted to Mr. Lewis. Years ago father taught me to be sympathetic to labor. If the rich don't recognize labor they'll bring their house of cards down upon their ears...
Miss Ogden says the steps in the Society Girl's education (and the criteria of whether she is a Society Girl) are: 1) finishing school, 2) debut, 3) the Junior League. To Miss Ogden the debut is "a romantic escape from problems." Junior League charitable work, she finds, is a well-intentioned, noblesse oblige gesture that "serves as a convenient justification of the existence of the elite" but waters the roots of neither the poor nor the Society Girl...