Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days before her seventh birthday, Mary MacArthur made her stage debut unknown to the audience in the last scene of Victoria Regina, when, as Princess Ena of Battenberg, she walked on, spoke no line but curtsied to her mother, Helen Hayes, in the title role. Backstage afterward Actress MacArthur received telegrams, flowers, an unwelcomed reminder that her mother had made her debut...
...sensuous delivery of the Franck sonata. More cold-blooded listeners felt that here Culbertson lacked clarity, tended to lose himself in lyric effects. As always he did best with Bach, made every variation in the Chaconne marvelously clear and incisive. Sensing that Sasha Culbertson was nervous over his second debut, critics deferred judgment. Friends of Violinist Culbertson were not surprised at his nervousness. Sasha has always been as retiring as his bridge- playing brother, Ely Culbertson, is bold. Though both Culbertsons were born in Eastern Europe, they are Sons of the American Revolution. Their father was a mining engineer from...
Sasha studied first with the leader of the orchestra his mother kept for her own amusement. Later teachers were Otakar Sevcik of Prague and Professor Seligman of Leningrad Conservatory. He was 14 when he made his debut in Vienna, impressed critics with his fluency, impressed his father into buying him a $100,000 Guarnerius del Gesu violin...
...Francisco Elaine Barrie Barrymore, currently suing for divorce, made her stage debut in The Return of Hannibal. At the same time her mother, Mrs. Louis Jacobs, revealed that the wedding ring Actor John Barrymore had given Elaine was a circlet woven from tiny strands of gold: "Flexible-like Elaine's marriage...
...champion, Pancho Villa, who died in 1925. ¶ The Yale swimming team, coached by Bob Kiphuth, who last winter started the practice of observing his squad from the bottom of the pool (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936 ): its 154th consecutive intercollegiate dual meet; 60-to-15 against Pennsylvania, in its debut in the new Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League; at New Haven...