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Mary Ellin Berlin, 17, brunette, bright-eyed daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin, made her formal debut at the Allied Flag Ball and Debutante Cotillion in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria (with 97 other young socialites whose parents had contributed $1,000,000 worth of bonds), brought back memories of the days when her novelist mother, Ellin Mackay Berlin, was Manhattan's brightest debutante...
...Bernstein can hardly be called another Gershwin, but he is the closest thing to the great composer that America is likely to enjoy for a long time. The brilliant young prodigy goes from successes in the symphony "Jeremiah" and the ballet "Fancy Free" to an unspectacular but extremely arresting debut on the musical comedy stage...
Died. Florence Foster Jenkins, 76, billowing coloratura, well-to-do sponsor of her own costumed concerts at Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel; one month after her Carnegie Hall recital debut (where her rose-petal-strewn rendition of Clavelitos was wildly bravoed); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...crusade for spiritual renovation." This proved to be a program for rejuvenating the Army by kicking out its more senescent generals-a crusade for which it is easy to inspire younger officers in almost any army. Behind the crusade appeared a new force-the GOU-which made its debut in Colonel Perón's garrison at Mendoza. Soon the GOU's influence had permeated the Argentine Army. The GOU's leading ideas were irresistible to soldiers: the Army was the purest, noblest thing in Argentina; it was the group best fitted to rule the country...
Hollywood's redheaded Jeanette MacDonald last week realized one of those classical ambitions which often continue to bother sensationally popular stars. She made her U.S. debut in grand opera. The scene was the late Samuel Insull's Chicago Opera House. The opera was Gounod's tuneful Roméo et Juliette. The result made no operatic history. But even Chicago's seasoned operagoers admitted that the show was better than they had expected...