Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house in advance, and take potluck. More than half of them have held seats for ten years; 10% of them for 40 years. Says Johnson: "Why should we force a new venture when we can sell out the house with Rigoletto?" And, unlike Broadway theaters which can play a hit nightly until it pays off, the Met plays each opera only four or five times a season. Even if Peter Grimes is a hit (as none of the ten most recent new operas has been at the Met), it would need a run of five years to break even...
...evenings, Slater and Britten cycled to the local pub to drink beer and play darts. Says Mrs. Slater: "I had to make a rule they should speak to me at mealtimes...
Romeo, his voice shaky with emotion, breathed into the microphone: "By yawnder blessed moon I swear. . . ." What was Milton Berle doing under that balcony? He was acting Romeo and Juliet. And it was no gag. The new show, Play It Straight (on Manhattan's WNEW), would give radio's funnymen a chance to indulge their traditional and unsinkable ambition to play Hamlet-or any other long-faced role they fancied...
Hank Iba, basketball coach of the Oklahoma Aggies, is much too sly to be stampeded into using newfangled methods. When he takes his players to the big city, they play horse& -buggy basketball. There is no furious running or frantic shooting. Calmly and deliberately, they throttle the game down ; the Aggies seldom score many points and allow the opposition even fewer. Other coaches call it "slow death...
...trade, Iba's stalling technique (after getting a slim lead) is known as "the deep freeze." The play is turned over endlessly about 15 feet outside the foul circle. The trick : make them come out and get you. When they do, they will leave a lane open for you to break through. Iba insists that the old way, which is his way, is scientific basketball: "Anyhow, it's not indoor shinny...