Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retired British Major General last fortnight made his debut as a commentator in Newsweek. He was 66-year-old John Frederick Charles Fuller. His opening piece was an unmitigated condemnation of the Allied invasion of Italy as "unstrategic," and foolish...
Featured in last week's Jacobowsky and the Colonel was Hollywood's pretty Annabella, wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power. The French cinemactress-who rose to fame in Director René Clair's Le Million -was making her Broadway debut. Critic Rascoe charged from the show to his typewriter, abruptly started off: "An incredibly talentless actress who calls herself Annabella made me so spiritually ill last night that you can stop, right now, if you want to. . . . In my whole life (I give you my word) I have never seen or heard an actress botch up good lines...
Born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Kostelanetz made his professional debut as a concert pianist at the age of eight, and won his first major conducting assignment as Conductor of the Petrograd Grand Opera Orchestra when 19. He came to this country in 1927, and in 1930 was made conductor of one of the symphony orchestras of the Columbia Broadcasting System...
Before many seasons were over she was on her way to study in Paris with the parting blessing of the late Otto H. Kahn. In a few years, Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza had signed her for a Metropolitan debut as Mimi...
People's Voice. Grace Moore always had the born trouper's instinct for the big way. At her Metropolitan debut the wings were crowded with newsreel cameramen, and Beatrice Lillie and Miriam Hopkins threw violets from the boxes. When a short time afterward, Hollywood beckoned, Grace hired a Pullman, garnished with orchids and banana trees, and went in state. She may not have become the world's greatest soprano, but nobody could accuse her of not acting the part...