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Going hungry for the sake of her infant son, Coralee fainted at a tryout for a part in a revue the great Chardon was producing. Thereafter good fortune came her way in breath-taking abundance. When she accidentally collided with a handsome young South American in the street, he turned out to be a dashing Argentine millionaire-"although taller than they usually are." When she needed groceries, a basket of them was brought to her humble apartment by a delivery boy who turned out to be the same millionaire in a borrowed smock. "Had le bon Dieu," wondered the pretty...
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...