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...that, at 13, Marian was moved along into the adult choir. After her father's death, her mother took a job as cleaning woman in a department store. At 16 Marian took over the support of the family, sang at community affairs, made what she calls her formal debut in a concert at a Negro school in Atlanta. Her church friends helped finance her study, felt richly rewarded when, in 1925, she was chosen from 300 applicants to solo with the New York Philharmonic at a Stadium Concert...
...massive family mansion on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive moved Mr. & Mrs- Potter Palmer. Cleaned, redecorated, refurnished from warehouses, rehung with what paintings had not been given to galleries, the long-time citadel of Chicago society was open for the first time in two years for the debut of the Palmers' youngest daughter Pauline. That night 300 socialites rolled up to the carriage porch, hurried across the mosaic reception hall, danced in the highceilinged, velvet-paneled ballroom where the first Mrs. Palmer entertained King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales. Dark were two unfurnished upper stories. After...
There have been experienced sure-voiced sopranos who have shown real feeling for Puccini's curving melodies. But as figures on the stage they have created little or no illusion. Last week Susanne Fisher of Sutton, W. Va., made her formal U. S. opera debut. Though hers was not an amazing voice, she did manage to be the most appealing, lifelike Madame Butterfly that the Metropolitan has presented in 14 years...
With the exception of Marjorie Lawrence's Brünnhilde, the most impressive debut of the week was made by Swedish Gertrud Wettergren as Amneris in Aïda. Mme. Wettergren had received flaring advance publicity when she arrived in the U. S. month ago, asked two ship-news reporters to kick her "for luck" (TIME, Dec. 2). Her performance last week proved that she could rely on something sounder than luck. She is an accomplished, rich-voiced singer with a commanding stage presence and a fine flair for acting. As Amneris she was regal enough...
...manners and music of all the nearby tribes. She gave her first performances in Europe in 1930. For the past six months she has been in Paris, giving repeated recitals. Her U. S. future has still to be decided. Many an offer was made to her before her debut last week. Refusing them all, she said: "I must first show what...