Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent figures worthy to rank with Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Dancer Argentina, Pianist José Iturbi. As though to atone for this neglect, alert little Pianist Iturbi, who plans to become a U. S. citizen, has lately carved a niche for himself as an orchestral conductor as well. His quiet debut occurred last May in Mexico City, speedily became a triumph. Emboldened by the success of his first piano recitals in Mexico, Iturbi organized an orchestra of 75 "professors," inserted a small advertisement in a newspaper saying that he would conduct it. He describes the effect: "The people did not stay...
...Jarboro's debut the Hippodrome was sold out days in advance, standees were thick in the aisles. From swank Striver's Row to the river slums, Harlem came downtown to welcome her, filled one-third of the house. Tall and good-looking, dark enough to need no makeup in the role of an Ethiopian slave, Jarboro revealed the husky voice of her race, rich in texture, not perfectly schooled. At the end of the aria "Ritorna vincitor" she was recalled three times, not by Negro cheers only...
...doubt about the outcome. Daughter of Countess Zanordi-Landi, who said her mother was Austria-Hungary's Empress Elizabeth, Actress Landi says: "I don't care to talk about my ancestry because that is of the past." But her past (which includes English private tutors, a stage debut with an Oxford repertory company, authorship of three published novels) asserts itself in the Landi presence. Like Ruth Chatterton, Elissa Landi is violently patrician at all times and particularly so when she tries to be the creature of her instincts. This is a minor flaw in an otherwise pleasantly superficial...
...mistress of an exiled Archduke. All Eleana shows is that, be it ever so sophisticated there is no place like home, and also that love for Prince Rudolph, wish-fulfillment though it may be, is a very delightful complex. But for Diana it is a great showing, a real debut...
...follow, the expert Wagnerian performers who saved the past season from out & out disaster will repeat their acts. Paunchy Tenor Paul Althouse, who made a Metropolitan debut 20 years ago before he was artistically mature, will rejoin the company. Last week as soon as another season was assured, Cyrena Van Gordon, onetime Chicago Opera contralto, was engaged for the Metropolitan. So was Baritone John Charles Thomas, the Pennsylvania Methodist Minister's son who after an apprenticeship in musical comedy Maytime, Apple Blossoms) has developed one of the smoothest baritone voices...