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...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...
...Whiz Kids' manager, Barney Barnett, tried to get the St. Louis Cardinals interested. They did not answer Barnett's letter. As they will long remember, ivory hunters for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox also passed up the chance to give Mickey Charles Mantle a farmclub tryout...