Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Post. Bored with what seemed to be routine assignments, they first sought out Swedish Admiral Fabian Tamm, listened politely while he claimed that his was a peaceful nation. From peaceful Admiral Tamm they went to Gertrud Wettergren, sleek, dark-haired Swedish contralto who is shortly to make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera. Mme Wettergren was nervously crossing her fingers, knocking on wood. Perfunctorily the reporters wished her luck, whereupon she flashed a wide smile, presented her back, said "Kick...
Handed the thankless task of replacing Douglas Fairbanks in D'Artagnan's floppy boots, Actor Walter Abel, in his Hollywood debut, seems a trifle more nervous than a swashbuckler should be. This is due less to his own shortcomings than to the curiosities of the story. Investigating the means whereby the Queen of France (Rosamond Pinchot) retrieves a brooch injudiciously entrusted to an English admirer, it reveals D'Artagnan as an incompetent young cavalier whose headlong efforts to combat an international intrigue are successful only because the villainess treats him with uncalled for generosity and because Athos...
...season which makes it impossible to maintain a creditable resident company. Makeshift is to pay for a few big names to bolster up a list of mediocres. For his trump cards this season Longone will present Lehmann in Der Rosenkavalier, Prague's Mila Kocava in her U. S. debut, pretty Helen Jepson as the profligate Thais, the U. S. premiere of Respighi's La Fiamma, the world premiere of Ethel Leginska's Gale with John Charles Thomas singing and the bushy-haired composer conducting...
...Aquarium, the Statue of Liberty, got lost in the subway, occasionally trotted around their hotel block for exercise and spent the rest of their time singing. The letters on their badges stood for Singing Boys of America. They regarded this week's Manhattan concert as their formal debut, the springboard from which they hoped to jump to national importance, really earn their name...
...Dartmouth Barbary Coast Orchestra, acknowledged by many to be the leading college band in this country, will make its Harvard debut in the ballroom of the Copley-Plaza Hotel on the occasion of the Harvard-Dartmouth Ball to be held Friday October 25th. Held for many years on the eve of the annual football game, this function has become traditionally as important to Harvard undergraduates as the game itself...