Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ellin Mackay Berlin, daughter of Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Mackay and wife of Composer Irving Berlin, made her debut as a short-story writer in the Saturday Evening Post. Title: "But Not for Love...
Marriage Annulled. Marion Talley Raucheisen, 26, Kansas City's coloratura soprano (Metropolitan Opera Company debut, 1926; retirement, 1929); and Michael Raucheisen, 43, German pianist; in Long Beach. Calif. Grounds: immediately after the wedding last June, the groom ordered out the bride's mother & sister...
Passing through the Metropolitan's narrow stage door Scotti managed a smile for photographers who waylaid him. He shook hands gravely with hulking Giulio Gatti-Casazza who had made his debut as manager of the Scala in Milan the night Scotti first sang there 34 years ago. Then he went upsteps to a dingy dressing-room, locked the door, took pictures of his long-dead father and mother from the little black bag and sat them down before a mirror. Slowly he smeared his face with yellow paint, donned a snakey-cued China-man's wig. For that...
Tibbett's Metropolitan Opera audition got him a $60-a-week contract. He made his debut as Valentine in Faust, learned the role in two days without knowing a word of French. Just another baritone, critics thought, with a better voice than most but no experience. He muddled his entrances and exits. His elbows stuck out. His small, turned-up nose was not much to look at. He got the chance to sing Ford in Falstaff only because Baritone Vincente Ballester was sick. When the audience started shouting for him Tibbett was upstairs in his dressing-room removing...
...hurried to Manhattan where he scored the quick success that San Franciscans had prophesied for him. Dobrowen (pronounced Do-bro-vane) gets dynamic effects by constantly fluttering his left hand, tossing his black head, whipping the air nervously with his baton. Considerable excitement was aroused at his Manhattan debut fortnight ago when he played Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, of which San Francisco is tired but which Manhattan seldom hears now since Toscanini is not attracted to the pessimistic Russian's music. The tireless drilling that Toscanini gives his orchestra made Dobrowen's dramatic Tchaikovsky perform-ance possible...