Word: debute
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concert that he gave in celebration of his Manhattan debut there was a wide range of selection, ending with his well-known Home, Sweet Home and Charity...
...Lombard city a man of middle life and of some wealth, a tenor. He had been studying for years with that grand heroism that you find in aspirants who have never contrived to sing a decent note. No manager, even of the smallest company, would give him. a debut. In the Spring a number of students held a confabulation at the end of which they went to the tenor, told him that the managers were conspiring against him, and that they, his friends, were going to get up a performance for him. He was overjoyed...
Philadelphia's Stokowski, orchestra leader, triumphed gloriously when he brought forward Wanda Landowska to make her American debut...
Stepping Stones. Fred Stone, whose comedy is a cherished tradition of the present-day American stage, has found a lineal descendant to perpetuate his name. His daughter Dorothy made her debut in a new Stone show, and in the three short hours of the opening night she danced her way to the regions of the stars. Twice in that memorable performance the critical first night audience rose to its feet to give her personal ovations. It is doubtful that any individual performer ever gleaned more glory from a first appearance on Broadway...
...Massingham made his journalistic debut on the Norfolk News, but it was not until he became editor of the Daily Chronicle that he made bis name in the newspaper world. Under him the Daily Chronicle was accounted the best journal in London from every point of view, and since those days Mr. Massingham has acquired a great deal of respect and even admiration in newspaper and literary circles. Nor was this popularity confined to Liberal thought, as was shown recently by the acceptance of articles from Mr. Massingham by J. St. Loe Straehey, editor of The Spectator, which used...