Word: debutitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Robert Benchley '12 helped to produce three of the best Pudding shows: "Diane's Debut" in 1910, "The Crystal Gazer" in 1911, and "Below Zero" in 1912. "Diana's Debut", the most popular of the three, was a heavy-handed satire on Boston Society. The big song in the play had a famous line, "At Somerset, things were rather...
...tremulous letter to the New York Times, Playwright Tennessee Williams at last explained the flap surrounding the debut of uptrodden Tallulah Bankhead as downtrodden Blanche Dubois in his A Streetcar Named Desire (TIME, Feb. 13). It was the morning after opening night in Miami, with three weeks to go before Streetcar careened into Manhattan's City Center. Recalled Williams: "She asked me meekly if she had played Blanche better than anyone else had played her. I hope you will forgive me for having answered, 'No, your performance was the worst I have seen.' . . . I never stated publicly...
Rubinstein made his official debut in Berlin at the age of eleven, playing Mozart's A-Major Concerto (K. 488). Critics cheered, but today he rarely plays Mozart. "He is the greatest of them all-so clear, so pure. Today I am too clever, too knowing, no longer simple...
...Debut has hung on for two weeks and currently has no competition on Boston's boards. The second act gets pretty sexy, and the whole thing may even come out on Broadway next week. At the Wilbur...
...illegal and slander when he learned that Orson Welles was producing, writing, and starring in a movie which was based upon his life. While Hearst fought to ban the film, Louella A. Parsons and Henry (Time-Life) Luce fought for its appearance. In 1941 Citizen Kane made its heralded debut; a debut which marked the introduction of a brilliant work of art and genius...