Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile, Jim, Wheeler will carry for the first quarter followed by A1 Ruby, David Hamblett, and anchorman West Flint. On Saturday the whole team will get its first tryout in a full scale practice meet with Tufts at Tufts...
After a six-month tryout as a Warner assistant producer, Skolsky was asked if he had any picture ideas. "Yes," said Skolsky, "the life of Al Jolson." Jack Warner, not believing his ears, cried, "The life of Al Jolson? We've done that." (Warner's 1927 The Jazz Singer, starring Jolson in the first talkie, was a thinly disguised Jolson biography.) "Nobody," Warner decided, "wants to see or hear Jolson any more...
Luckman heard the "presentation record," was sold for a nine-week tryout. CBS gave the show the Monday night (8:309 p.m., E.D.S.T.) hot spot held in season by Joan Davis. Variety tabbed Senator "a show with tremendous promise." It looked as if Luckman had bought himself one of the summer replacements most likely to succeed...
...Simkhovitch retired as director of Greenwich House last month, but she plans to keep an eye on it; she thinks of it as "sort of America in small." Says she: "The tryout for 'one world' is in the neighborhood...
...lead (Musetta) he had tried out 30 women, was satisfied with none. Then Met Conductor Wilfred Pelletier, who teaches at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, suggested a 20-year-old, plump, black-haired pupil of his, who so far had sung only in church choirs. At the tryout, Anne sang the one bit of Bohème she knew: the famous second-act waltz song...