Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, singing Sieglinde opposite such champions as Kirsten Flagstad, Kerstin Thorborg and Lauritz Melchior, Helen Traubel made her official Metropolitan debut. Manhattan's debutasters trooped in droves to hear her, stayed to cheer, for they heard one of the finest heavyweight Wagnerian soprano voices to turn up at the Metropolitan since Kirsten Flagstad's debut...
...Petersburg. Her father and brother are Reds. Despite these home influences, Lydia is irresistibly attracted when Prince Karagin (Eddy) begins a kittenish courtship which would set the teeth of a more experienced young woman on edge. Red family friends of Lydia reward Prince Karagin for arranging her operatic debut by shooting his father. Off goes Lydia to Siberia. Off goes Prince Karagin to World War I, the big moment of which comes on Christmas Eve, when Karagin carols Silent Night from the Russian trenches while the Austrians across the way carry the chorus. After that the Russian Revolution breaks...
...innovation in Shirley Temple: the first time in her six-year career that she has ever played in a radio show. They say she has turned down $3,000,000 in radio offers. They say she might have had $35,000 had she chosen to make her debut Christmas Eve with Charlie McCarthy on the Chase and Sanborn program. But for her radio coming-out, she got not so much as a lollipop...