Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Ponchielli's 66-year-old La Gioconda) was on. Except for four operatic finds, it was much like other seasons. The four finds (chosen from 3,000 operatic aspirants recruited through nationwide radio auditions): Nan Merriman, a dimpled, 22-year-old brunette from California, who made her debut disguised in the stage wrinkles of old La Cieca in La Gioconda; Dorothy Ann Short, a 19-year-old University of Washington coed; Max Condon, a six-foot-two tenor; Baritone Mac Morgan, a former Eastman School student...
...play of about six years back, "Reflected Glory." In a way it seems a shame that the dust was disturbed, for the play was none-too-good when Tallulah Bankhead starred in it on its last appearance, and it makes a poor vehicle for the stage debut of Gloria Swanson, the well-known screen star. The play deals with the life of a rising actress and her feelings about life in the theatre. She babbles constantly about wanting to marry and have a home of her own, but the audience knows from the start that she really loves the theatre...
...striding boldly along a London street on a visit from the country was like a miniature edition of his famed grandfather. The young "Princess Alice" Roosevelt of the early 1900s reappeared in a picture of her daughter, Paulina Longworth, now suddenly a young lady of 17 making her debut...
...Flat so irritated audiences that his publisher persuaded him to write a simpler finale, issue his pet fugue separately. Now recognized as a titan among fugues, it comes to life eloquently, pulsingly in the first album of Violinist Adolf Busch's reorganized chamber musicians, who made their U.S. debut earlier this year (TIME, March...
...manufacturers, merchants or housewives have yet heard of Masslinn. Last week its proud maker, Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings), explained why: the wonder baby had literally been snatched from the cradle and hastened off to war. Eighteen months ago it made a modest debut in Chux, a disposable diaper; before it could appear in sheets, window draperies, table cloths, wall paper, wire insulation, Masslinn was abruptly withdrawn from the market and production (now running about 800,000 yards per month) converted totally to Army & Navy needs...