Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malley first thought of joining it. He had read about its triumphal tour of Europe two years before, when it sang before Pope Pius X.* For years young O'Malley had been practicing the piano and going to almost every concert and opera in Chicago. At his tryout he sang Gounod's Ave Maria straight through with such solemn precision that Father William J. Finn, the choirmaster (now retired), nicknamed him the "professor" and accepted him on the spot...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association, tracking down "tryout" coddling of prospective lettermen, cracked down on seven colleges. Penalties ranging from reprimand up to one year's banishment from all tournament basketball play were levied against North Carolina State, Kansas State, Seton Hall, Hardin-Simmons, Texas Tech, West Texas State and Arizona...
Without a real overhaul, Sherlock Holmes will please only that elfin six-year-old who accompanies Wolcott Gibbs when he lightly pans a play. Simply the usual "polishing and tightening" which a Boston tryout promiscs will not prevent a waste of considerable talent, talent scarcely evident in the ragged performance on Monday night. With Basil Rathbone cast in his famous role, a script by Ouida Rathbone based faithfully though eclectically on five of Conan Doyle's best stories, and the rather curious but impressive attraction of Jarmila Novotna in the cast, it is hard to believe that the producers...
...talent, 65 musicians strummed and drummed to set a new record for auditions in one night. Burgin, who doubles as Concert master and Associate Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, hopes to enlarge the string section with many of the exceptionally large number of violinists in last night's tryout...
...Theatre Guild persuaded Shirley to take a part in Come Back, Little Sheba, which was scheduled for a one-week tryout at the Westport, Conn. Country Playhouse. After three days of rehearsals, Playwright Inge and Director Mann were desperate. They had concluded that Shirley simply could not handle the role. They were chiefly upset by her stock-company approach to rehearsals: she merely walked through the part, mumbling her lines. Tearing their hair, Inge and Mann begged the Theatre Guild to get rid of Shirley and hire Joan Blondell in her place. Then, on the fourth day, Shirley was suddenly...