Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started to be a violinist but abandoned his career when he cut his left hand on a wine bottle, severing the nerve to his little finger. Father Ferras trained his son until he was 15. Christian won a first prize at the Paris Conservatory, soon afterward made his concert debut in Paris. He has been touring steadily since (England, North Africa, South America...
Terry Blanchard, as Elba's version of Elsa Maxwell, John Spooner, as Walrus, Duchess of Wopping, the Baltimore girl who made her debut in the YWCA and grew up to "rock an empire," and Amyn Khan, an Yma Sumac, whose attraction for men--all men--is fatal, are marvelous. All of them can sing, all of them can act, and all of them have excellent parts. The scene in which they get together to protest that each is really a "Lady at Heart," is a high point of the show...
...Scala debut last week MacNeil was in typically impressive form: his rich, flexible baritone soared and swelled with enormous power; his acting had about it a quality of vibrant conviction that dominated the stage. Once he moved the house to bravos. Few in the audience realized that MacNeil was there for merely a one-shot appearance, was not given a rehearsal with the cast or orchestra. And few but La Scala's sharpest critical ears detected that MacNeil speaks no Italian, has to learn his roles by rote. Said MacNeil modestly: "There isn't much acting required...
...vaudeville team of Montgomery & Stone, he made the leap to Broadway as the straw man in The Wizard of Oz (1903). Through such great hits as Victor Herbert's The Red Mill and Jerome Kern's Stepping Stones (in which his daughter Dorothy made her debut), Fred Stone became the nation's top musicomedian, later switched to straight plays and the cinema...
Slim, attractive, fortyish Denise Duval, who once sang (fully clothed) at the Folies-Bergere, repeated the triumph she scored in the opera's debut early this month in Paris. Says Singer Duval: "This is a true role. I don't have to invent attitudes. It's happened...