Word: trouper
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...Divine Dance," where she has about 50 disciples of all ages. She also has 50 acres south of Riverside, Calif., where she would like to start a colony. "If I had an endowment-which I ain't got-" she adds with the breeziness of an old trouper. "I would take six boys and six girls and keep them under monastic discipline in a retreat for five years before I would allow them to dance. My vision is of a renaissance in America, beginning with the dance...
Bringing all the precision and adaptability of an old trouper to the set, Shirley found the job of acting in movies remarkably easy: "I didn't have to project. It was like telling someone about it confidentially. It all seemed so much more intimate, as, of course, it was, with the camera practically in your navel.'' Her fellow actors were entranced. Burt Lancaster says reverently that Shirley is "a nugget, a diamond, a pot of gold. She's Babe Ruth. She's Mickey Mantle. It's a nice note for this town that...
...learned all he knows about show business ("I had my first walk-on part when I was 13 months old"). His father was a County Cork strongman and circus leaper who could spring from a trampoline over the backs of four elephants. His mother was so determined a trouper that she kept on performing until three days before Donald was born, 27 years ago. With his parents and six brothers & sisters, Donald toured the U.S. three times before he was out of knee pants. He didn't see the inside of a school until he was ten and enrolled...
...quarter of a century on the coloratura's high and skittish vocal trapeze is a notable rarity; this musical generation has Lily Pons. At an age (about 48) when most coloraturas seek the terra firma of German Lieder (where they can be expected to last indefinitely), Trouper Lily pours out her Caro Nome, her Bell Song from Lakme and other acrobatic items of coloratura literature, and gives more than a dozen opera performances and two dozen concerts a year...
...Lily, busy at a well-paid (about $4,000) job, it was also a chance to win what a trouper enjoys most: the cheers of an outsize audience. As is her custom before a performance, she went to bed at 6 the night before, spent the day in seclusion, took a sip of sugar water to ease the queasy feeling she still gets before going onstage. She sang carefully, in a tailored rather than flamboyant style, but the notes were true...