Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a polite R.S.V.P. But only two people showed up, and so the Suffolk County, L.I., district attorney scheduled another try for his after-the-party party. This time he sent subpoenas to be sure he got testimony about the damage done to an old Southampton mansion after the debut of Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill, 18. After hearing the story, a grand jury returned indictments against 13 young social lions and one girl, Subdeb Mimi Russell, 17, daughter of Vogue Publisher Edwin Russell. If convicted of the misdemeanor, they each face up to six months in jail and $250 in fines...
...crucial job of party chairman, was Labor Minister John Hare, 52, a hardworking, true-blue Tory. As for Sir Alec's defeated rival for the prime ministership, Rab Butler, he had always wanted to be Foreign Secretary (Harold Macmillan denied him the job), and Rab made his debut last week at a Western European Union conference at The Hague with complete professional aplomb...
...reached the pitch of performance that might have saved it from its staging. Designer Robert O'Hearn built a marshmallow Egypt; Stage Director Nathaniel Merrill strewed the huge cast across it like pistachio shells; Katherine Dunham firmly fixed a rhinestone in every navel within reach and made her debut as a Met choreographer nothing more than a tawdry reminder of her old Haitian dance suites. Uniformly brave performances and sensitive conducting by Georg Sold were not enough to counteract such problems, and Verdi's tragedy sank into the goo without a tear...
After his triumphant debut at Bayreuth last summer in a new production of Die Meistersinger, Schippers was offered the directorship of two European opera houses-a temptation that sorely tries him. "Conducting is not enough for me," he says. "I need a theater-a theater is the way I can express myself best. I want to live in the dirt of the theater." The dirt is denied him at the Met, where conductors have no responsibility for staging or direction, but Schippers is too much at home there now to leave easily. "I feel that the Met is my orchestra...
Decked out in a Monty Woolley beard, Naismith makes a capital Santa, and Janis Paige is a delectable if ungay divorcee. Stevens, in a lackluster Broadway debut, seems to be one of those staglets whose careers consist of looking vaguely like Gary Grant. The cast's efforts may not be totally in vain. As one departing first-nighter put it: "Well, at least it's a reminder to do Christmas shopping early this year...