Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime concert pianist named Rilda Bee. He had no other training until he enrolled at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music in 1951 to study with Russian-born Teacher Rosina Lhevinne. He won the Leventritt Award for young pianists in 1954, and as a result made his debut with the New York Philharmonic to glowing reviews. But like many another promising young U.S. instrumentalist, he promptly dropped out of sight on the smalltime recital circuit, found himself playing successful but unheralded recitals in places from High Point, N.C. to Coldwater, Mich...
Less than two blocks from Sahl's Broadway debut, England's Joyce Grenfell, a gaily chirping mockingbird, was back, after 2½ years, with her monologues and songs. After a travesty on Opening Numbers, she imitates a Stately Homeowner on TV, lady choristers at the Albert Hall, assorted cockneys and Yankees, a harebrained cultist and a cheery nursery-school teacher. Mimic Grenfell's satiric range is narrow, her lunges make mere surface wounds, and half a Grenfell loaf is better than all of one. But her art, if thin, is pure...
...debut last week Mezzo Hoffman displayed a veteran's easy stage presence and a wide-ranging voice that floated purely though somewhat colorlessly in its upper register, darkened richly in its lower one. The haunting warning Einsam wachend in der Nacht in Act II had a texture soft as velvet, but with resonant carrying power. Her characterization in one of opera's most thankless roles was skillfully subdued, came as a welcome relief from the histrionics with which other Brangänes sometimes worry the Met's stage. All in all, it was a welcome and memorable...
...unionists, professors, authors and theologians issued a proclamation demanding that the government keep out of any atomic armament race and "support all efforts for an atom-free zone in Europe." Next week the committee called "Fight Against Atomic Death," composed of Socialists and Evangelical churchmen, will make its public debut with a mass rally in Frankfurt. As in Britain, the Florence bomb proved a windfall to the cause, and Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung nervously asked whether American planes were flying A-bombs over West Germany. The question got a big play-far bigger than the U.S. Air Force...
...debut as a dramatic actor, he chose Material Witness, by Henry (Time Limit) Denker, and the title role of an average householder who sweated out 50 dreary minutes in fear that gangland killers would learn of his presence at one of their crimes. The show was just another dipperful of clabber out of Kraft Theater's antique churn. Berle played the shallowly written role with egregious self-control. Conscious of his dignity as a TV elder statesman, he liked the part because it was, said he proudly, "something unbrash, unflippant and unaggressive-I wanted to get away from...