Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pianist Hofmann, now 61, his grey hair encircling a bald spot, his gentle face still distinguished by the cleft chin of his youth, walked upon the Metropolitan stage and 4,000 applauding people rose to their feet. It was 50 years, less a day, since he had made his debut before the U. S. public. For this Golden Jubilee concert the 4,000 had bought out the house long ago, at $15 for the best seats, the proceeds (some $22,000) going to the Musicians Emergency Fund. In the audience were New York's Mayor LaGuardia, Polish Ambassador Count...
Have you ever seen a bar walking? Well, a walking bar made his debut in Soldiers Field Saturday. Strung along his belt, like a glorified street-car conductor, was a row of leather containers. One held a little shaker, several had little bottles, and others had little glasses. He had many more friends at the end of the game than he had at the beginning...
Julius Caesar (by William Shakespeare; produced by the Mercury Theatre). Manhattan's intimate Comedy Theatre once echoed to Holbrook Blinn's The Bad Man, staged Katharine Cornell's debut (1916), played host to the theatre's great until northbound Broadway moved on and left it to amateurs, foreign language mummers. Last week Orson Welles and John Houseman reclaimed it as the Mercury Theatre, and the change meant more than a new sign over the marquee. It meant a new. vitalizing experiment in drama...
...jewels than had been exhibited at the opening of the Chicago City Opera last fortnight. The ladies were out in force, for this was a ladies' evening. On the stage, pretty Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao (Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera) sang Mozart, Massenet. Verdi in her Chicago debut. The 76-piece orchestra, demurely clad in dark dresses, was all-woman. But it was not quite...
...until she was twelve, was not much keener about it until, on her 16th birthday, she heard Schnabel play. Then, she says, "I grew up in one day." Schnabel, who had learned Latin from her father, took Pianist Monath as pupil, still coaches her although she made her Manhattan debut five years...