Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brief time he worked as a clerk in the Washington Patent Office. His daughter was born the first autumn of the 20th Century on Washington's P Street, Northwest. Her education was at parochial schools. Abetted by a mother with theatrical ambitions, Helen Brown made her Broadway debut in 1909 in Old Dutch. Elders like Lew Fields, Vernon Castle and John Bunny crowded her out of the press notices. Not until five years later did she get any notices at all. These referred to, her as "fanciful," "whimsical," "pixylike" when she appeared as a first-act child with...
...husky young member of the Class of 1924 who soloed with the Yale Glee Club. All were aware of the name he had made for himself in Berlin, Vienna and at the Salzburg Festival under Conductor Arturo Toscanini. Nor did his old friends seem disappointed in his Metropolitan debut. They cheered him and whistled as if at a football game. But his performance, all told, was not that compelling. He acted competently both as the aged philosopher and as the rejuvenated romantic. He sang agreeably except when he tried to force a voice which is naturally light. But he appeared...
With the exception of Marjorie Lawrence's Brünnhilde, the most impressive debut of the week was made by Swedish Gertrud Wettergren as Amneris in Aïda. Mme. Wettergren had received flaring advance publicity when she arrived in the U. S. month ago, asked two ship-news reporters to kick her "for luck" (TIME, Dec. 2). Her performance last week proved that she could rely on something sounder than luck. She is an accomplished, rich-voiced singer with a commanding stage presence and a fine flair for acting. As Amneris she was regal enough...
Even with a Metropolitan contract, Flagstad was loath to leave Norway. She had married Henry Johansen, a wealthy lumber merchant. The Christmas holiday season was on. She liked to ski and she dreaded new audiences. But if she was nervous before her debut, no one at the Metropolitan observed any sign of it. She knitted placidly before she went on stage, knitted between scenes. No high-strung person could have endured the ten weeks which followed. She had sung Elsa (Lohengrin) only in Norwegian, Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) only in Swedish. Now she had to relearn both in German...
...every singer who has made a Metropolitan success, she has taken to the road, given concerts before audiences which have seemingly found her perfect. This season she has already given 32 recitals in addition to four performances with the San Francisco Opera (TIME, Nov. 4). She made her concert debut in Manhattan last week and though her voice was sure and strong, it was sometimes grainy, perhaps from fatigue. Most singers who are suddenly acclaimed work themselves too hard. Flagstad wrote from Norway last summer: "I am so busy I almost wish I never was a success...