Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...role, that of a Mississippi showboat impresario, because he felt it did not do his talents justice. Paramount promptly suspended him from its pay roll. Miss Sullivan, 4-ft. n-in., gi-lb. Negro soprano, who in 1937 started a craze for gently swung folk tunes, made her Hollywood debut in Going Places last month. In St. Louis Blues, in addition to an excellent rendition of Loch Lomond, she touches a high in good taste for cinemusicomedy by singing the title song without screeching, stamping or keeling up the whites of her eyes...
This will be just another meet for the Ulenmen as they speed preparations for their league debut against the Pennsylvania Quakers next Saturday. Victims of a 38 to 37 upset at the hands of the powerful Brown Bruins, the Crimson tankers have been practicing steadily during the examination period and should not be stale despite the competition layoff...
...Captain Bob Haydock, '39, twelve members of the Varsity track team will make their winter debut in the K. of C. Meet tomorrow night. The Crimson contingent is not expected to do more than place one or two men in a field which includes such star performers as Glenn Cunningham, Dave Albritton and Alan Tolmich, but as Coach Mikkola puts it: "Upsets can happen anytime...
Pianists Josef and Rosina Lhevinne gave a gala concert at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, commemorating their marriage as well as their joint debut 40 years ago. The smooth length of their married life (rare for virtuosos) Mrs. Lhevinne credited to: 1) frequent separations; 2) occasional quarrels; 3) mutual understanding...
...Mawr College, the Washington society news was nostalgic last week. Alice Roosevelt (Longworth) in 1902, Ethel Roosevelt (Derby) in 1908 and Helen Taft (Manning) in 1910 were the last three girls to "come out" in the White House. Last week that mansion was again turned upside down for a debut. The lucky girl was Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt-daughter of her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt by his first wife, now Mrs. John Cutter of Dedham, Mass. She had already had one debut in Boston and observed frankly that coming out is "a racket, but a pleasant...