Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, at 13, Marian was moved along into the adult choir. After her father's death, her mother took a job as cleaning woman in a department store. At 16 Marian took over the support of the family, sang at community affairs, made what she calls her formal debut in a concert at a Negro school in Atlanta. Her church friends helped finance her study, felt richly rewarded when, in 1925, she was chosen from 300 applicants to solo with the New York Philharmonic at a Stadium Concert...
Rose of the Rancho (Paramount). As a vehicle for the cinema debut of Contralto Gladys Swarthout, a revival of David Belasco's famed stage success recommended itself for obvious reasons. Born of U. S. parents and reared in Deep Water, Mo., Miss Swarthout has a Latin appearance well suited to a rigmarole about Spaniards in California and their efforts to hold their ancestral estates against early land-grabbers. Furthermore, the dual roles of Rosita Castro and Don Carlos, masked leader of the Spanish vigilantes, enable her to maintain a tradition which she inaugurated at the Metropolitan Opera...
...massive family mansion on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive moved Mr. & Mrs- Potter Palmer. Cleaned, redecorated, refurnished from warehouses, rehung with what paintings had not been given to galleries, the long-time citadel of Chicago society was open for the first time in two years for the debut of the Palmers' youngest daughter Pauline. That night 300 socialites rolled up to the carriage porch, hurried across the mosaic reception hall, danced in the highceilinged, velvet-paneled ballroom where the first Mrs. Palmer entertained King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales. Dark were two unfurnished upper stories. After...
There have been experienced sure-voiced sopranos who have shown real feeling for Puccini's curving melodies. But as figures on the stage they have created little or no illusion. Last week Susanne Fisher of Sutton, W. Va., made her formal U. S. opera debut. Though hers was not an amazing voice, she did manage to be the most appealing, lifelike Madame Butterfly that the Metropolitan has presented in 14 years...
...manners and music of all the nearby tribes. She gave her first performances in Europe in 1930. For the past six months she has been in Paris, giving repeated recitals. Her U. S. future has still to be decided. Many an offer was made to her before her debut last week. Refusing them all, she said: "I must first show what...