Word: troupers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before she became a star, Ethel was a trouper. She knew what it was to make one-night stands in Main Street theaters, to sneak out of cheap hotels with the family luggage left behind in locked, unpaid-for rooms. She knew what it was to live in hall bedrooms that cost $9 a week, meals included. "It was a wonderful time to begin seeing America," said she, "just at the beginning of the changes that were to be so tremendous." For her, one-night stands were always good-in Jackson, or Little Rock, or Kalamazoo ("The celery...
...British liberated Singapore in 1945, the Baileys wandered out of prison and into town, found a house marked ENEMY PROPERTY. Bill added a note of his own-"Occupied by Bill Bailey"-and moved in. The couple liked the place, settled down, soon turned it into the Coconut Grove. Old Trouper Bailey had come home at last...
From the moment Trouper Verdon turns plain Essie into a glittering song-and-dance girl, Redhead stops being deadhead. Her articulate hands, toes and torso are parts of speech and her lines are more pleasing than the script's. Her body is an erotic spoof spelling sex in quotes, as she overtilts a wayward hip or dislocates an amorous shoulder; in marathon-long dances, the stage is her keyboard, and she never hits a wrong note. Under the bravura assurance lies an endearing Chaplinesque poignance. Smiles of delight cross the wistful, wide-eyed Verdon face, like sudden dawns. Eager...
...Trouper's lament
...calls herself Eva Lovelace as she bears down on a famed actor she has not been introduced to. "You're Robbert Harley Hedges, aren't you?" Actor Hedges (Herbert Marshall) achieves a smile. "I've played them all," she airily lets him know, as one trouper to another. "Nora in The Doll's House, Madame Ranevsky in The Cherry Orchard" He: "Where was all this?" She: "With the Mummers in Ordway, Vermont...