Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born Balthasar Klossowsky, son of a Polish-French art critic, Balthus learned to paint without a teacher, put traditional methods immediately to his own uses. Since 1934, when the Balthus debut set Paris all agog, the artist has exhibited rarely. Last week's show was his first in the U. S. A slight, dark-haired man with a pale, pointed face and sharp eyes, Balthus is married to a Swiss girl, lives in a studio apartment on Paris' Cour de Rohan. He is a close friend of Author Andr éGide and, in spite of his frightening portrait...
...invented during bed-time stories told by Artist de Brunhoff to his three little boys. Between 1932 and 1937, five Babar books were published in France, translated into English. A few months before he died at 37, M. de Brunhoff designed costumes and sets for Babar's debut on the Paris stage...
...years ago the undisputed title of No. 1 living cellist was held by a stocky, bald-headed Spaniard named Pablo Casals. The aging Casals has not played in the U. S. for nearly a decade. Three years ago, when Austrian-born Cellist Emanuel Feuermann made his Manhattan debut, he set the cello fans' heads to wagging. Short, roundheaded Feuermann not only drew a powerful, well-modulated tone from his recalcitrant instrument, he could play it with a rippling facility that put most violinists to shame. Last week Cellist Feuermann finished the most ambitious cellistic venture ever witnessed in Manhattan...
Also on today's program is "Love and Hisses," Simone Simon's debut as a Singing Sensation. Actually, the merits of the picture are more on the comedy than the musical side, with Bert Lahr and Joan Davis doing a wonderful job. Peter Lorre's "Thank You, Mr. Moto!" is the companion piece. This would be a good enough bill, even without The Hour...
When the plump, round-faced Czech Soprano Gertrude Pitzinger made her U. S. debut in Manhattan's Town Hall month before last, few U. S. concertgoers had ever heard of her. Last week, as Soprano Pitzinger finished her first U. S. tour, delighted critics went back a whole generation for their comparisons, acclaimed her as the greatest Lieder singer since Wüllner, Gulp and Gerhardt. Thirty-two-year-old Soprano Pitzinger learned Lieder as a girl from Bohemian peasants, studied more with Vienna's famed Lieder composer, Joseph Marx. Five years ago she braved a Berlin recital...