Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna was hard. Her first real singing teacher dismissed her because she had "no voice" and she struggled for scholarships thereafter, wrote poetry on the side. The first money she earned came from verses submitted to Berlin's Der Tag. In 1910 she made her operatic debut in Hamburg and there she learned routine. One night an Austrian impresario was in the theatre on a hunt for a tenor. He signed up Lotte Lehmann instead...
Cobina Wright was the only one of his five wives to part by divorce from Owen Johnson (Stover at Yale), Born Esther Cobb on an Oregon ranch 90 mi. from a railroad, she was taken abroad by an aunt; at 16 she made her operatic debut in Germany and married Novelist Johnson. After War and divorce she entered Manhattan society by way of marriage to a wealthy broker named William May Wright. In 1924 she began a series of concerts chiefly distinguished by her Poiret gowns. Meantime she was becoming famed for large, jolly parties to which socialites and celebrities...
...neither fat nor 40 but a young woman of grace with a strong clear voice in its prime. The new singer was Kirsten Flagstad, a Norwegian who knows how to milk a cow and ski. As Sieglinde in Die Walkure she made the season's outstanding debut...
Worthy running mate to Henry is a strange little character named Philbert in Cottier's. Spotted in the back of the magazine, as Henry was in Satevepost, Philbert also has scored spectacular results since his birth a year ago, will soon make his cinema debut...
Another highly publicized entry in the Santa Anita Handicap is Victor Emanuel's four-year-old Statesman, sent from England especially for the race. Last week, making his U. S. debut, Statesman finished last in a field of eight...