Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, almost two years to the minute since he made his radio debut, Lord Haw-Haw began his broadcast with the words: "I, William Joyce. . . ." If his father's death had anything to do with his decision to abandon his incognito, he did not say so. Instead, he explained that he had dropped it to answer a series of London newspaper stories calling him a common spy. Said his indignant Lordship: "All these imputations I disregard as garbage...
Composer Haydn, who never went to Spain, arranged his Seven Words not only for orchestra but for chorus, piano, string quartet. In none of these forms has the work been much performed in the U.S. Year ago the string version of the Seven Words was given its U.S. debut, by the Primrose Quartet. On sale last week was the first recording of it (Victor: 17 sides; $9), a fine one by the same outfit, whose boss is crisp, Scottish-born, cricket-playing William Primrose, world's best viola player...
Tall, brown-haired, courtly Paul Lukas, son of a Hungarian advertising man, was born in 1895 on a train just pulling into Budapest. He went to the Actors' Academy (Hungarian national theatrical school), served with the Hungarian forces during World War I, made his professional stage debut in Budapest in 1916 as Liliom. Later he was a guest artist under Max Reinhardt in Berlin and Vienna, acted in German UFA films. Paramount's Adolf Zukor saw him on the Budapest stage, got Lukas to move to Hollywood. Since then he has appeared in The Night Watch, Strictly Dishonorable...
...Dramatic Club spring offering Miss Donna Smith of Erskine will play the feminine lead, with Roger Henselman '42 starring opposite her in his theatrical debut...
...cinema cliche, it hardly seems like a movie. There are some extraordinary technical novelties through which Welles and wiry, experienced little Photographer Gregg Toland have given the camera a new elo quence - for example, the "stolen" newsreels, the aged and streaked documentary shots. When Susan makes her disastrous operatic debut, the camera tells the story by climbing high up among the flies to find two stagehands - one with his hand pinching his nose in disgust. Always the camera seems to be giving the narrative a special meaning where it will help most: picturing a small bottle beside a tumbler when...