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While Author Hart guides his characters through their scenes, he also manages some fascinating asides. There is Hart's quick test of tryout success (when a play is doing well, room service is always prompt, but when it is in trouble, the waiters are always late and the sandwiches soggy); there is Hart's law for the aspiring director (the less sure he is of himself, the tougher he must be with the cast). Hart knows how to interpret all the sounds made by an audience: the implications of their coughs, the degrees of their laughter, the intensity...
...newest play, "Hogan's Goat," will be published in a book also containing collected poems. It had a tryout run last winter, but Alfred said there are parts he will rewrite. He said he is willing to rewrite for producers and directors if he himself sees that something is not working well in the rehearsal...
...make visible bulges on the television screen. The son of a Bronx truck driver, Rocky grew up in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, played ball just across the street in Macomb's Dam Park. Naturally, the Yankees were his boyhood heroes. Naturally, the Yankees gave him a tryout when he was only 16, but let him get away when the Indians topped the Yankees' half-hearted bid with a still modest offer of $3,000. Last year, in his second full season with Cleveland, he blasted 41 homers, just one short of matching Mickey Mantle for the league...
...plead to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination that Green needs more seasoning in the minors. From the sidelines came an unsolicited comment from ex-Dodger Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color line in the majors with Brooklyn twelve years ago. When he and two other Negroes got tryouts at Fenway Park back in 1945, recalled Jackie: "We were told they never saw anybody do so well in a tryout, and that's the last thing we were told. There's no question that if the Red Sox wanted [a Negro player] they could find...
...friends-billed as Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two-were also working at church socials. Four years ago they got a singing tryout with Sun Records (the outfit that discovered Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis), and their first song was Johnny's Cry, Cry, Cry. And Johnny had it made...