Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cultural Crime? Bumbry's debut was less important than those of Dalis and Thomas in Parsifal or of radiant Spanish Soprano Victoria de Los Angeles in Tannhäuser. But her engagement received far more than its share of attention after the Wagner brothers were bombarded with letters suggesting that the assignment of a Negro to the role of Venus was a "cultural crime" against the obvious wishes of Wagner himself. Wieland remained unmoved: "I shall bring in black, yellow and brown artists if I feel them appropriate for productions. I require no ideal Nordic specimens...
...road to teen idolatry, Margret took dancing lessons in a Chicago suburb, where the family moved from Sweden when she was six. Her debut as a radio singer was not auspicious: she lost out on an amateur hour when she was 16 to a Mexican leaf player. Leaving Northwestern University at the end of her freshman year, she got a job singing in a restaurant lounge, was heard and hired by George Burns for his Las Vegas show. Burns gave her some professional advice: get out of her new red velvet slacks and into black Lastex and cashmere...
Knights of Debut...
...York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston and others, have had some effect. But the disappointing performance of the growth-stock companies probably did as much as anything to deglamorize them. Many just did not live up to their great (but exaggerated) profit expectations. Transitron, which made its debut last year and quickly scaled to 60. is now down to 24 because 1960's black ink has turned to red. Pale profits in vending machines have sent Vendo down more than 50% from March's peak of 77¼, while the earnings pinch has also clipped Polaroid, Fairchild Camera...
...Hunter's Rosalind marks her Shakespearean debut, and is a remarkably good first try even though not likely to be long remembered. Her voice is a bit edgy and narrow in range, but the role's spirit is there. And she handles the solo epilogue most appealingly...