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Coop has recently also become a noteworthy family man. Maria Veronica Balfe Cooper was born three years ago. Some time later Mrs. Cooper took the baby to Phoenix, Ariz., when Coop was going on location for the desert picture Beau Geste in the sandy wastes of Arizona's Buttercup Valley, 19 miles east of Yuma. In Phoenix the baby got sick. After working a while, Coop wanted to phone Phoenix about her, but the nearest phone was in Yuma and a wild sandstorm was blocking the wooden road that led out of the Valley to the State road. Coop...
...Gilbert's script to the letter, but stirring ketchup into Sullivan's score, Tropical Pinafore shifted base from foggy England to a banana-bright Caribbean isle. Opening with a jungle chant that Sullivan neglected to write, it burst into syncopation when a huge, black, big-bosomed Little Buttercup appeared, calling Dick Deadeye picklepuss and shaking her gargantuan hips...
Sweet Little Buttercup (Larry Clinton: Victor) proves that Sir Arthur Sullivan (Onward! Christian Soldiers and the Savoy operettas) can be swung as well as sung...
...Reader Howard's surmise (about the salutations) is correct. A recent letter, for instance, began "Dear Buttercup...
...actress, cast in some 400 roles over a 63-year career; after long illness; in Montvale, Va. As Blanche Galton, daughter of a British opera singer, she made her London debut in 1865 in Turco the Terrible, appeared in Manhattan three years later, played the original U. S. "Buttercup" in Gilbert & Sullivan's H. M. S. Pinafore. In 1930 she emerged from retirement for a benefit performance of Trelawny of the Wells...