Word: debutantes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suzanne de La Salle Chambers Hiteman, 36, French-born divorcee; he for the first time, she for the third; in Manhattan. At Glamor Boy Clark's coming-of-age party last November, celebrated in Manhattan's 21 Club, Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier and scores of other debutantes drank his health...
Last month lion-jawed Pianist Moriz Rosenthal celebrated the soth anniversary of his U. S. debut by playing a special gold-lacquered piano in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall (TIME, Nov. 21). Forgotten at the time by most Manhattan concertgoers was the fact that Pianist Rosenthal's U. S...
The second debutant, German Baritone Hans Hermann Nissen, with a traditional lock of property hair over his left eye like a well-bred Scottie, stalked woodenly as Wotan in Die Walküre. Judges gave him several points on power, few on subtlety. Two Italian sopranos were broken in on...
One debutant gave thrills to the audience as well as to himself: stocky honey-voiced Swedish Tenor Jussi Bjoerling who had appeared three times previously with the Chicago Opera. Since 1932, when famed Tenor Beniamino Gigli was painfully extracted after a tiff over a salary cut, the Metropolitan had been...
Unlike many famous musicians, Paderewski was no infant prodigy. Though he took piano, violin, cello and even trumpet lessons at an early age, his teachers at the Warsaw Conservatory considered him a promising composer rather than a concert artist. Not until he was 28 did he manage to make his...