Word: auditioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some singing lessons in nearby Watertown, she auditioned at Manhattan's Juilliard Graduate School, won a fellowship, graduated with the highest singing rating in her class. When she sang in audition for Laszlo Halasz last year, he broke his usual routine of saying just "Thank you" to hopeful auditioners, and signed her on the spot...
Juanita was getting ready as far back as she can remember. Her grandmother landed her first part, the role of the Christ child in a Christmas play: "Grandmother was religious enough, but it took a theatrical turn." Soon after she reached New York, Juanita landed a chorus job in the...
Composer Dmitri Shostakovich was in Dutch again with his Russian masters. Earlier in the year he had been in the dialectic doghouse, then let out when Pravda praised his "clear, realistic and emotionally powerful music" for the movie Young Guard (TIME, Oct. 25). Now it looked as if Dmitri was...
When he was 19, he went to Turin to take his final examinations. He flunked, so he walked over to the opera house, asked for an audition, and got a contract.
The "Henry Higgins" behind the ad was actually Jack Grogan of Manhattan's enterprising WNEW, who is about to launch an educational program called "How to Speak Better English." As each girl talked to Grogan she received a sort of preliminary test. This week, the 15 worst (including one...