Word: debuts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bachauer found her budding career postponed by World War II. She abandoned concert halls for military outposts, giving more than 600 recitals of classics and boogie-woogie for Allied troops in the Middle East. A commanding woman in appearance as well as technique, Bachauer made her U.S. debut in 1950, drawing only 35 listeners. Critics, however, were quick to praise her spirited interpretations of a wide variety of music. She lived in London, but toured extensively and played with nearly every major symphony orchestra...
Died. Lotte Lehmann, 88, famed German-born prima donna and legendary lieder singer; at her home in Santa Barbara, Calif. A warm, sensitive actress whose amber soprano was infinitely expressive, Lehmann could electrify an audience by merely stepping on the stage. She made her debut with the Hamburg Opera in 1910, four years later with the Vienna Opera, where she created several roles for her friend Richard Strauss, and in 1934 with the Metropolitan. Notable among her 100 roles were her yielding Sieglinde in Die Walküre, her devout Elisabeth in Tannhäuser and, most outstanding...
After a troublesome nine-month gestation, King Kong is alive and well and going through toilet training in Hollywood. The 40-ft. star of Dino De Laurentiis' $22 million ape epic made his public debut at MGM's back lot and, considering that his innards are almost as complex as those of a Polaris missile, the king showed surprisingly few kinks. (The ape whose death was staged last June at Manhattan's World Trade Center for the film's final scene was a Styrofoam stand...
Natalie (Capitol). From the end of the '40s until well into the '60s, the late Nat "King" Cole held sway with mel low, foggy-voiced renditions of easygoing ballads like Too Young and Red Sails in the Sunset. Last year Daughter Natalie, 26, released her debut album In separable and picked up a pair of Grammys for her trouble. Cole's second LP confirms a talent that makes her a strong contender for Aretha Franklin's title as queen of soul pop. At her best getting down with hand-clapping, shooby-dooby funk, Cole tends toward...
...musical version of his life might prove to be a turkey. So Sanders, whose own career fizzled until 1956, when he launched the first of his "finger lickin' good" chicken eateries, has not invested any money in Kentucky Lucky, a new stage show scheduled for a fall debut. Conceived by Writer James Chappin and directed by Jerry Adler (My Fair Lady), the show will tell the colonel's story in song and dance. Sanders doubts that it will help chicken sales, however. "If it was just another commercial," he explains, "it wouldn't be worth seeing...