Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary MacArthur, 16, daughter of Actress Helen Hayes and Playwright Charles MacArthur, approached her stage debut in a speaking part.* Coming (to summer theaters in New Hope, Pa., and Suffern, N.Y.): mother & daughter in Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire...
Toscanini: Hymn of the Nations. Toscanini, conducting Verdi, makes a stunning film debut (TIME, April...
Toscanini, conducting Verdi, makes a stunning film debut (TIME, April...
...Mayer-Burstyn), made by OWI Overseas in 1943 for European distribution, is now for the first time released in the U.S. Its star: Arturo Toscanini, who (with Tenor Jan Peerce, the Westminster Choir and the NBC Symphony Orchestra) made this movie debut, for patriotic motives, free of charge. Content: Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Hymn of the Nations, the latter with revisions and interpolations by Toscanini. (He changed Italia, patria mia-Italy, my fatherland-to Italia tradita-Italy, betrayed, and climaxed the piece with the Internationale and The Star-Spangled Banner...
Last week, five weeks after her New York debut, she played again in Carnegie Hall. This time the house was packed and the critics were in their pews. A buxom, platinum-haired woman of 35, her face was heavily rouged to cover the pallor of the past six years. Her U.S. sponsors wanted her to wear a corset; she refused ("I have to feel what I play from the legs up"). Says Maryla: "My first concert is European. Come one artist in old dress, no photogenic, no smiling. Then come complications. The criticisms are too good. Come snobs, I play...