Word: tryouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alibi Ike (Warner). Joe E. Brown had a good time making this picture. Its baseball background harks back to the time when he was given a tryout with the New York Yankees. He still plays whenever he can. He owns a piece of the Kansas City Blues (American Association) and is now reported dickering with Judge Emil Fuchs for a sharehold in the Boston Braves...
...became vigorous, and seemed to make the assembled gentry a bit unhappy, but Boston first night audiences cannot be expected to wax enthusiastic at this discomforting anti-Beacon Hillism. This preaching tendency will no doubt be modified as the run goes on; Monday night's presentation was obviously a tryout...
...Harry Wagstaff Gribble revise it for presentation in Philadelphia in March 1933. The show failed. Next revisionists were Philip Dunning (Broadway) and Harold Johnsrud, whose version opened in Pittsburgh in November 1933 with oldtime Cinemactress Pola Negri as star. The show failed. Next year it was scheduled for another tryout in Boston. It did not come off until the Shuberts got Arthur Goodrich (Richelieu) to do a third adaptation and hired a sad little red-headed woman named Greta Maren for the chief role. Up in Manhattan last week went another chorus of critical boos...
Selection of men for the two Harvard teams will be made on the basis of tryouts to be held in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening. All men in the University who are interested in debating on the subject are eligible to compete for positions on the teams and men intending to tryout are requested to prepare four-minute speeches on either side...
...members, 35 turned up at Chicago's Palmer House last week. The oldest member was not there. Charles William Smith. 83, stayed in Haverhill, Mass, where he still publishes his Tryout, a pretentious 24-pager. Few years ago the Association bought him a $25 font of new type because his own supply, reputedly 100 years old, was so illegible that, what with Mr. Smith's proneness to typographical errors, the members could hardly decipher his writings. The youngest member was not there. Felix Moitoret, 11, stayed in Oakland. Calif, where he publishes The High Filth Herald...