Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exuberant Sir Thomas can usually be counted on to pull a rabbit of some sort out of his hat. This season's rabbit: an unknown, good-looking, 26-year-old,Polish-born soprano named Margaret Kubatzki. Soprano Kubatzki, making her official Covent Garden debut in a role previously sung by the eminent Kirsten Flagstad (Senta in Wagner's The Flying Dutch-man), created a sensation. Said Conductor Beecham: "One night last October I was turning the various knobs of a wireless ... I heard a magnificent voice. . . . When I went to Germany to make records of the Magic Flute...
Under Western Stars (Republic) introduces a new singing cowboy, compact, blue-eyed, diffident Roy Rogers (real name: Leonard Slye). What makes his debut notable is that the song he sings is of social significance. On the sere cinema range ridden by twangy Roy Rogers no grazing buffalo roam. Most of the time the Western stars are blotted out by great, rolling clouds of dust. In the discouraging words of Dust, Cowboy Rogers laments...
With the spirited Freshman eight leading the way by dint of a 6.55.4 time over the Henley distance, four Crimson crews staged an impressive debut on the Charles last Saturday by swinging smoothly to easy victories over Rutgers and M.I.T. and bringing home the Rowe Cup for the second year...
Something new in transportation, a steam car modelled after the old Stanley Steamer, made its debut here Wednesday night with a Yale man at the wheel...
...lively Elizabeth Vandenberg, 26-year-old daughter of Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg, were surprised to hear of her marriage to Edward Pfeiffer, Trade Extension Bureau Manager of True Story Magazine. This was the second time in two weeks that lively Betty Vandenberg, who year ago made her debut as a pianist with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, contrived to make news. Last fortnight, she was the central figure in a de luxe musicale given by her father at the Sulgrave Club in honor of his own 54th birthday. The Vandenberg guest list of 300 included, as well...