Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Young Man (Paramount). When Mae West made her cinema debut in 1932 (Night After Night), wiseacres predicted her career would be short-lived. When she became a star (1933), critics considered her a fad. When the Legion of Decency was formed (1934), Mae West seemed its most likely victim. Currently, though she slipped from fifth to eleventh in Motion Picture Herald's star-rating, Mae West is still one of Hollywood's highest paid ($150,000 per picture) celebrities, unique in two respects: 1) She writes her own scripts. 2) While other producers are trying...
...first time in ten years that the season patrons could not look forward to a single concert under their beloved Conductor Arturo Toscanini. It was the first time that John Barbirolli, 36, had ever faced an American audience, and this audience that he was tackling at his debut was the most exacting, the most critical in the country. To many in that audience Toscanini and the Philharmonic had seemed inseparable; to nearly all, this young Barbirolli was unknown. They clapped him politely but not prodigally...
Last week Mary Lewis Hague made another debut-at the Versailles night club in Manhattan, where she wore a slinky, electric-blue sequin dress, sang better than most night-club singers Shootin' High, Did I Remember? and, with snapping fingers and swaying hips, Les Filles de Cadiz...
...Like It (Paul Czinner) exhibits Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind in the third play by William Shakespeare offered to cinema audiences within the last year. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Max Reinhardt's cinema debut, and Romeo and Juliet, the late Irving Thalberg's masterpiece, had at least one thing in common: neither one has broken records for receipts. The critical acclaim which As You Like It received in London last summer and will receive in the U. S. this winter is not likely to save it from the same fate. Box-office appeal...
...general in the Fascist Militia, arrived at Berlin with a gold eagle on his cap and gold epaulets on his shoulders, to be greeted with deafening German hells and an imposing turnout of Wilhelmstrasse officialdom headed by Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath. Thus strikingly Count Ciano made his debut on the world stage last week as Europe's newest ranking statesman...