Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bernstein can hardly be called another Gershwin, but he is the closest thing to the great composer that America is likely to enjoy for a long time. The brilliant young prodigy goes from successes in the symphony "Jeremiah" and the ballet "Fancy Free" to an unspectacular but extremely arresting debut on the musical comedy stage...
Died. Florence Foster Jenkins, 76, billowing coloratura, well-to-do sponsor of her own costumed concerts at Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel; one month after her Carnegie Hall recital debut (where her rose-petal-strewn rendition of Clavelitos was wildly bravoed); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...crusade for spiritual renovation." This proved to be a program for rejuvenating the Army by kicking out its more senescent generals-a crusade for which it is easy to inspire younger officers in almost any army. Behind the crusade appeared a new force-the GOU-which made its debut in Colonel Perón's garrison at Mendoza. Soon the GOU's influence had permeated the Argentine Army. The GOU's leading ideas were irresistible to soldiers: the Army was the purest, noblest thing in Argentina; it was the group best fitted to rule the country...
Hollywood's redheaded Jeanette MacDonald last week realized one of those classical ambitions which often continue to bother sensationally popular stars. She made her U.S. debut in grand opera. The scene was the late Samuel Insull's Chicago Opera House. The opera was Gounod's tuneful Roméo et Juliette. The result made no operatic history. But even Chicago's seasoned operagoers admitted that the show was better than they had expected...
Miliza Korjus' belated U.S. debut seemed of a piece with the rest of her eccentric career. Daughter of a Swedish diplomat and a Polish woman, she was born in Warsaw. Traveling all over Europe in the course of her father's assignments, she attended some 16 continental conservatories, winding up at Paris. While there, she was spotted by RCA Victor recording scouts, got her first recording contract while she was still a student. Miliza Korjus was married to a Swedish engineer who wanted her to settle down and raise a family. But her records created such a furor...