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...receiving these applications the Council will mail out topics for the speech. Tradition is being broken in that in place of a formal debate at the tryout, the candidate will make a five-minute speech discussing the assigned topic, pro or con, from the point of view of the first speaker...
...less a Broadway opening than a kind of $5.50 question. On its road tryout Gypsy Rose Lee's maiden effort at playwriting, THE NAKED GENIUS, had become the script-tease of the season. Two days after it went into rehearsal, it was sold to 20th Century-Fox on a sliding-scale basis for a maximum $365,000. In Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, it packed them in-but kept stalling off its Broadway opening. Then Producer Michael Todd (Star & Garter, Something for the Boys) boldly announced he would open the show there over the violent protests of Gypsy and Director George...
...that can be retrimmed, dream up new ones. Then they put their heads and hoards together, producing a script that Hope proceeds to tear apart-cutting, sharpening, fitting to character. Finally, before the Tuesday night broadcast (NBC -10 p.m. E.W.T.), there is a Sunday night sealed-in-the-studio tryout at which the audience acts as blue pencil and Hope runs hog-wild...
When at last Miss McGuire transferred her affections to Claudia, the audience at a Washington tryout had an electrifying experience. They saw a pretty, pug-nosed little woman articulate, with something of the luminous otherworldliness of Maude Adams and with some resourceful, intelligent acting-a Golden Treasury of U.S. schoolgirlishness...
Cried he: "That airplane bombing had all the appearance of a tryout to test if the Catholics of America would be alarmed or enraged at the implied threat to bomb the Capitol of Christendom...