Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys of Shakespeare's theatre played women, so the boys of the Yiddish theatre have for centuries played old men. Muni made his stage debut at the age of eleven in Cleveland, as an old man in a sketch called Two Corpses at Breakfast. He took to the stage as naturally as a grocer's son takes to the counter. But his parents had other ambitions for him. To the Jews of that generation any kind of musician was higher in the social scale than an actor. Paul was to be a violinist. He took his lessons dutifully...
...Japan, better propaganda for the kind of occidentalization in which the Konoyes specialize. In the Konoye Butterfly, Pinkerton is a U. S. musician instead of a Navy lieutenant. After he reluctantly deserts Cho Cho San, she decides to be a singer, goes to the U. S. for her grand debut. Instead of a tragedy, the Konoye Butterfly, which the Viscount hopes to have photographed mostly in Japan with a Japanese actress in the title role, ends happily. Conductor of the orchestra at Cho Cho San's New York premiere is, by a happy coincidence, her old friend Pinkerton...
...week upon a towheaded young woman who, whirling to the strains of a sweating, shirtsleeved orchestra, sang and danced passionately around a plaster head on a property platter until her feet hurt and print dress was damp and dusty. She was Erica Darbo, the Scandinavian soprano whose U. S. debut set Cincinnati agog last February in Strauss' Salome, rehearsing for her first New York appearance. The night of the performance, in costume and against a background of stars and sultry violet, Miss Darbo gained full credit for the force and fury of her acting, but New Yorkers were...
...Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Dancer Roberta Jonay (Jones), recently a fortnight guest at the White House (TIME, June 21), made her big time debut doing a Hungarian folk dance. Back at her ringside table she received the congratulations of her guests: Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., whose friendship she won after being introduced by her fiance. Earl Miller, onetime (1929-32) Albany bodyguard to the President, now personnel director of the New York State Department of Correction. The California Osteopathic Association attributed much of the success of dancers...
...months after the Philadelphia wrestling match episode, Franklin was a guest at Ethel's debut at Owls Nest, the Du Ponts' Greenville, Del. home. He subsequently visited her there and at a summer place at North Harbor, Me. When they appeared together at other debuts in Boston and Philadelphia the same year, society columnists began to predict a match. "Absolutely untrue," snapped Father du Pont. Nevertheless, Franklin bought a roadster in Wilmington and gave his address as Owls Nest Road...