Word: trouper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russet Mantle provides Margaret Douglass of Dallas with a belated triumph. An oldtime trouper whose husband is an excellent Southern-style leading man named Ben Smith, she had found Broadway so obdurate that she preferred to remain unmentioned in the program's "Who's Who" when she was given the part of the free-&- easy young woman's mother. The role is that of a Southern matron whose brain is as frivolous as her dress. It is superbly written, and Texan Douglass projects it magnificently. "Ah always was willowy," she reminds her sister, at a time when...
...another pompadoured loafer who has been hanging around Radfern's daughter and trying to borrow money from her father to go into the second-hand automobile business. What happens thereafter is between Scotland Yard and George Radfern, Playwright Priestley and his audience. As Radfern, Edmund Gwenn, oldtime British trouper who had not been in the U. S. for 13 years, turns in a magnificent performance. He received the biggest armful of critical laurels given any British male theatrical visitor since Charles Laughton (TIME...
...Kansas City, to establish the reality of divine law, Spiritualist Herbert Tanner engaged an Egyptian vaudeville trouper to lie buried in his churchyard for two hours, "demonstrate" that the dead are only in a trance. Police dug up the Egyptian, fined him $25 for not having a burial permit, $25 for performing the services of an undertaker without a license...
Died. Joseph Harold ("Hal") Skelly, 43, comedian; when his automobile was struck by a train; near West Cornwall, Conn. At times in a difficult career he was altar boy, prizefight manager, first baseman for the Boston "Braves," circus acrobat, medicine man hawker, trouper in Japan, China. His greatest stage success was the hoofer, "Skid," in Burlesque which he also played in a cinema version called The Dance of Life. Other plays: No, No, Nanette, Fiddlers Three, The Night Boat, Fifty Million Frenchmen (in England). His last was Come What May (TIME...
...sheer adversity entitles an actor to the title of trouper, Hugh O'Connell is a trouper of the Eagle Scout class. As a child he was sent West from New York with a trainload of other orphans. It was O'Connell's good fortune to be adopted by an affectionate couple in Kaukauna, Wis. His foster mother was as stage-struck as he, and when he had not earned his way into the Opera House by sticking up posters for a touring troupe, she usually could lay hands on a half-dollar to buy them both gallery...