Word: talents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Would-be thespians will have a chance to discover whether or not they possess any talent at the tryouts for the Beaver Country Day School fall play, which will be held today and tomorrow from 4 to 6 o'clock at the Big Tree Swimming Pool. Unfortunately the trials are limited to Freshman actors...
...schools turn out every year. Also apparent was the fact that there is something faddish and affected or else starved and forbidding about many examples of so-called "functional" design. After the fine economies of Colonial building disappeared in the U. S. during the 19th Century, isolated architects of talent were lost in a great drive of construction at any cost. New standards of design and a new rationale of architecture have not since been established in U. S. minds and efforts to establish them have been scattered, tentative and personal...
...Rodgers & Lorenz Hart by balking at other verses about Liberty Leaguer Alfred E. Smith and some of his associates, substituting instead some lyrics of his own devising. "I just wouldn't sing them," said Actor Cohan, who is no less famed for his loyalty than for his wide talent, "because they were about personal friends of mine." Actor Cohan's extempore lyrics were not repeated. Co-Author Kaufman pooh-poohed rumors of backstage discord over the incident. Said he smoothly, "Everything is smooth and lovely...
...with other studios, promptly stopped backing plays. Simultaneously seven studios (Warner Bros., Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Twentieth Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio, Columbia) set up the Bureau of New Plays, with canny Theresa Helburn (see p. 55) at the helm, offered advances on royalties, fellowships; hoped to corner young talent. Now in its second year, the Bureau has paid awards, but has so far found no play worth producing, so the film companies are once more ready to do business with Broadway...
...failure if he did not go out for at least half a dozen activities, and that at the earliest opportunity, say next Wednesday at seven thirty, or something. Indeed some of the sales talks were so eloquent that it is hard to see just how all the budding talent can be taken care of, especially in fields like music, where all you have to have is a love of music, good or bad, and perhaps a longing to explore some of the hitherto unexplained areas on the other side of the Cambridge Common...