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...Center Johnny Kerr (178 points) and Forward Irv Bemoras (177 points). The team is so well balanced that no Illinois player ranks among the Big Ten's top eight, yet five are in the top 30. Every Illinois home game is a fieldhouse (capacity: 6,500) sellout, and Illinois students are limited to three games a year...
...week's end Severino's pictures were a sellout, his schooling virtually assured. Said Italy's leading art weekly, La Fiera Letteraria: "There is an inspirational force and power of imagination here which we have never seen in other exhibitions of the kind." Gallery Director Chiurazzi immediately began making plans to send the show on to Milan and Paris. Severino took his early success calmly. Looking for the first time at the work of another successful artist, 70-year-old Pablo Picasso, he observed: "Why, he doesn't even know how to draw. He must...
...Ducal City. To General Manager Bing himself, the offstage chime of the cash register sounded almost as sweet as the applause. For the first time in Met history, he had sold opening-night tickets separately, rather than as part of a subscription or series package. The sellout audience, paying up to $25 a seat, plunked a handsome $53,112 in the till. Bing did not rest on his first-night work. Two nights later, he hit the critics and another sellout audience with a second new production...
...other whistle stops, cities and metropolises in 35 states, England and Scotland. The trek to what Actor-Director Charles Laughton calls "the huge neglected audience" began last February. Since then, in three tours consisting mostly of one-night stands, Don Juan in Hell has proved a steady sellout everywhere, in arenas, theaters and stadiums, outgrossing South Pacific in Denver, drawing an audience of 3,800 in Emporia, Kans. (pop. 15,500), emptying Carnegie Hall's ticket racks in eight hours. Total receipts so far: about...
...Denver Symphony Orchestra, six years ago, was a lackluster outfit playing to small, dutiful audiences, and losing money on a budget of $60,000. Last week the budget was up to a smart $260,000; the symphony season opened in Denver Municipal Auditorium (3,200 seats) with a near sellout crowd in evening dress, and the music sparkled...