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Musicomedienne Mistinguett, seventyish, whose shapely legs are an ancient Paris legend, was planning a tour of Canada this fall, and took a trouper's view of the project: "How long I stay depends on my success...
...announced her engagement to an orchestra leader named Don Sylvio. Margaret objected with howls: on hearing the news, mother reported, Margaret "turned on the tears" and kept them at full flood for two days. Finally calmed down, Margaret read a new set of lines to the press like the trouper that she is: "I had hoped mother would wait until I am 14 and grown up. But since she wants to marry now, I'm glad it's Don. I like...
...consort, Prince Bernhard; Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, a Central European internationalist who for over two decades had been a tireless crusader for a united Europe. Churchill wore a long frock coat such as most British politicians discarded around World War I. It was just possible that the old trouper was trying to look more "European," a little less John Bull...
Died. Arthur Prince, 66, British ventriloquist, round-the-world trouper for 43 years; of a liver ailment; in London. He asked that his bluejacketed dummy, "Sailor Jim," be buried with...
...much of a trouper to complain about that. Besides, she was free to sing old songs, which have a way of turning out to be hits these days. Kay's formula is simple: "If a tune is comfortable . . . if it feels good, I sing...