Word: thursday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clubs spend about $10 million a year in fees for top-name lecturers, traveloguers and other platform Poloniuses. After the cream of the chicken is ladled out, along come the hundreds of lesser performers who cannot get bookings through the major agencies. For them, job opportunities are offered on Thursday mornings in an ancient littb hall at Chicago's Art Institute. There the presidents and program chairmen of some 500 Midwestern women's clubs, as critical as any group of Broadway angels, gather to audition acts...
Into the hall one typical Thursday walked nine hopefuls with eight minutes apiece to do their stuff. Three lights concealed onstage gave them their signals: green (speak louder), yellow (one more minute), red (stop). By way of a warmup, Chicago's Mrs. Charles S. Clark, who started the audition system 41 years ago. promised a program of "artists in embryo," recited a little poem entitled, Because I Got Up So Early Today...
Margaret Canty, a former secretary at the University, pleaded innocent in East Cambridge District Court Thursday to five counts of larcency. She is being held in $29,500 bond for the grand jury...
...last two outings before the crucial Yale match next Thursday, the undefeated varsity tennis team takes on Columbia at New York today and Cornell at Soldiers Field at 2 p.m. tomorrow. The Big Red is definitely the stronger of the two, but neither team should give the varsity much difficulty...
Coach Jack Barnaby was very pleased with the fine tennis both Vinton and Lemann played, and commented that "if they play this well next Thursday, Yale is in for a tough time at four and five." Bill Wood remains at number six, followed by Jim Cameron, Pete Smith (winner over Laurie Pratt yesterday), Pratt and Scott Custer...