Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once been a washerwoman in Philadelphia. Her name was Anna Anderson. As a girl, her daughter dreamed of singing in this great gilt and plush house. Now, at 52, Contralto Marian Anderson was realizing the dream. The first Negro singer to appear at the Metropolitan, she was making her debut in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera...
Overdue. Seats for the Anderson debut sold weeks in advance, with orders from as far away as California. On the day of the performance, the line for standing room began to form at 5:30 a.m. At curtain time that night, there were more Negroes in the audience than anyone had ever seen at the Met. The audience waited impatiently through the opening scene, for Anderson would appear only in Scene 2. Her role: the fortuneteller Ulrica, who appears for 27 ominous minutes in order to bring the hero together with another man's wife and to predict...
...public, although she intermittently showed her nervousness during the rest of the haunting scene. Her unique voice-black velvet that can be at once soft and dramatic, menacing and mourning-stirred the heart as always. But critics who remembered that voice in the past felt that her debut was at least 15 years overdue...
Brownells headed up a receiving line to launch the flossiest debut dance of the capital's coming-out season...
...faster than Alice, is better known than Kenneth Grahame's Mole. He has appeared in eight 10,000-word books (10 million copies), five Noddy annuals, four strip books, 20 small books, been translated into everything from Swahili to Tamil to Hebrew. Last week, after he made his debut on the stage, London critics had to admit that Noddy in Toyland...