Word: debutanted
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...Twentieth Century-Fox). From the moment that Mrs. Oliva Dionne astounded the world on May 28, 1934 by giving birth to quintuplets, it was apparent that the children, if they lived, were destined for a career in the cinema. Already seasoned performers in shorts and newsreels, they make their debut as feature stars in The Country Doctor, which last week opened simultaneously in 326 U. S. and Canadian theatres. The story, suggested by Reporter Charles Blake of the Chicago American, is built around a character representing a romantic conception of the Quintuplets' Dr. Allan Dafoe. Twentieth Century...
...days before last week's performance the prima donna from Jellico, Tenn. kept to her suite in the Hotel Sherry-Netherland, refusing to speak lest she tire her voice. On the stage she exhibited more grace and confidence than she did at her debut in 1928. Otherwise her progress was unnoticeable. Her voice, at best, is naturally ingratiating. But it is still technically insecure, often feeble and rasping when she strives for top notes, empty and meaningless when she tries to sing...
...this week at the Boston Symphony concerts, and the program contains Roy Harris's Second Symphony, the suite of dances from "The Basque Venus" by Wetzler, and Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto no. 5 in E flat with Leonard Shure, local artist, at the piano. This is Mr. Shure's debut with the orchestra...
...once sung with Patti. At home the Gianninis made music all the time. The mother Antoinetta played the violin. Daughters Euphemia and Dusolina sang. Vittorio played the piano. Son Francis had a cello when he was big enough to wield one. Dusolina Giannini was 9 when she made her debut at her father's little theatre. At 12, she sang Azucena in 77 Trovatore, a performance in which her father was supposed to be her son. Last week Ferruccio Giannini sat in a box at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, proudly watched his daughter make a formal debut...
...that Dusolina Giannini had never rehearsed on the Metropolitan stage. But everyone knew that she was far from being a novice, that on the strength of her European reputation she had deserved a Metropolitan hearing several years ago. There were those in the audience who remembered her sensational concert debut in 1923,when she appeared in Carnegie Hall as a plump, glossy-haired girl of 19, an unknown suddenly called upon to substitute for Soprano Anna Case. Subject for high praise then was the beauty of her voice, its vibrant warmth, its effortless production. Smooth singing was to be expected...