Word: troupers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
From her villa on Capri, old Music-Hall Trouper Gracie Fields, a temporary victim of rheumatism and a bride of two months, announced that the British army had arranged for her to make an early summer singing tour of Korea. Would, her radio-tinkering husband Boris go along? Not likely, said Gracie, he is a stateless person without a passport. Besides, "he can't sing...
...trouper since she was five, Cleveland-born Dorothy has waited a long time for people to start looking. As a child, she toured the South in "a kind of package show" with her mother (Ruby Dandridge of the Beulah and Judy Canova radio shows), sometimes singing hymns and "sweet songs," such as The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, in churches. At 16, she was singing with her sister in Jimmie Lunceford's band at Manhattan's Cotton Club, but nobody paid much attention. In 1942, she got married; now divorced, she has a daughter, Harolyn...