Word: troupers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Osborne might have a part for him in any new play. Very much in character, Osborne superciliously replied: "I don't know-possibly." Then he began remixing a batch of anger in process called The Entertainer so that its lead-a sodden, cynical, third-rate music-hall trouper-would fit Sir Laurence. Last month, having just chucked a reported $250,000 by bowing out of a Hollywood film version of Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables, Olivier startled Britain's effete theater world by accepting the Osborne role. In a small, dingy London house last week, Sir Laurence...
...with Mozart's D-minor Piano Concerto, K. 466, surely his finest contribution to the medium. This is a work of tragic import, until the last pages of the rondo almost turn it into a gay ensemble from an opera buffa. The piano soloist was Kenneth McIntosh, who, versatile trouper that he is, played the French horn before the intermission. He approached the concerto with uncommon intelligence, and showed that he knew when the piano writing was mere accompanimental figuration for the orchestra, a feature many professionals would do well to note. His playing was effortless, unmannered and nearly flawless...
...went through her paces as the leading lady of the fathers' night show at Chicago's Bell Elementary School, nine-year-old Penny Golden had all the aplomb of a veteran trouper. Playing one of the wives of a sheik, she never missed a cue or muffed a line. But the most remarkable thing about her performance was the fact that no stranger in the audience could have guessed that Penny Golden is totally blind...
Sweet-Scented Clubs. As for the fight itself, "Doc" Kearns and Co. need not have worried about the talents of such an old (42) trouper as Archie Moore. With a skill perfected in tank-town arenas and sweet-scented boxing clubs all over the world, Archie wasted no time half-blinding the Saskatoon Statue with slicing jabs to the eye. Then, the fight well in hand, he carried his man for nine rounds, gave the crowd its $148,500 worth before the referee mercifully stopped the slaughter. "I could have finished him in the eighth," Archie confided later...
Backstage, all was not serene with Old Trouper Mae West and her touring menage of Bikini-diapered musclemen (TIME, May 21). One of Mae's big hunks, Miklos ("Mickey") Hargitay, 32, a likable sort of Hungarian Li'l Abner, renowned in physical-culture circles as Mr. Universe (6 ft. 2 in., 220 Ibs.), had crashingly fallen for Broadway's Daisy-Mae-Westish Actress Jayne (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) Mansfield, 23, in full view of the tabloids. A stern theatrical disciplinarian, Sexagenarian West, punishing Mickey for openly airing his romance, demoted him in her show by putting...