Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paderewski started his real study, learned what discouragement was. At 24 he met Modjeska, gave the Cracow concert and went to Vienna to learn from the great Leschetitsky who hesitated to accept him for a pupil because he was "rather beyond the age." At 26 Paderewski made his Viennese debut, to be followed by the conquest of Paris and Baroness Helena who made it her business to care for the invalid son Alfred until his death...
...Cochran settlement amounted to $3,000,000 and Walska went to Havana to sing. Harold McCormick heard her there, appreciated her if the Cubans did not, invited her to sing with the Chicago Grand Opera which he was then backing. Her debut was to be in Zaza but at rehearsal Conductor Giuseppe Gino Marinuzzi threw down his baton, threatened to quit the company. McCormick stood up for Walska, demanded that she should be allowed to sing. But in the excitement Walska disappeared. Not once did she ever sing with the Chicago Opera...
Acting laurels in Wednesday's Child are heaped upon the tousled yellow head of Frank M. Thomas Jr. A pouting, cherubic tot of 12, he made his stage debut at nine months, got experience in Carrie Nation, Little Boy, Thunder on the Left. His mother plays the trained nurse in Wednesday's Child; his father (The Gods We Make) is for the time being "at liberty...
...last nickel on the claque, the ovation could not have been bigger than the one which swept Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week after the first-act curtain of Die Walküre. The singer was Soprano Lotte Lehmann, a tall, stately German making her Metropolitan debut with a name already important in Europe and Chicago (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930 et seq.). Last week she was nervous. Her husband. Herr Otto Krause who left his insurance business in Vienna to hear the performance, knew it. The battered old doll which she kisses for luck each time she goes...
...exciting, close game with the Medford Ramblers, the Harvard Blue Jays, second junior varsity polo team, won their season debut 7-6 at the Commonwealth Armory on Saturday evening...