Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cinemactress Lillian Gish made her debut as a leading lady in Uncle Vanya...
...Chinese Actor Mei Lan-fang made his U. S. debut...
...Pianist Horowitz made his U. S. debut in January 1928, played 36 concerts that season, 46 concerts last...
Among Les Trente was a debutante. Vivacious, blonde Mme Natacha Carlu gave the first formal showing of her work with a group of five paintings. Sure of herself, she not only made her debut against such talented opposition as Pablo Picasso, Tsugoharu Foujita, and the bearded, elegant Kees Van Dongen, but she asked as much for her work ($1,000 per canvas) as for any picture in the room...
Alia Nazimova, 50, was born of well-to-do, cultivated parents in Yalta, the Crimea. She had schooling at Zurich, studied the violin at Odessa, spent four years in a Moscow dramatic school. Aged 26, she made her U. S. debut after a European tour with Paul Orleneff's Russian company. A year later the Brothers Shubert contracted with her to play in English; she learned the language in six months, appeared in Manhattan in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. So successful was she that the Shuberts built her the Nazimova Theatre (now the 39th Street Theatre). With Lionel...