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Sweetness and light were her stock in trade as Walt Disney's Pollyanna, but now that she's turned 18, Britain's Hayley Mills has become sweet lightning. Rising like the seasoned trouper she is from a 103° sickbed to prance in the chorus line at a London benefit, the "glad" girl shook a dazzling pair of legs and uncorked some un-Disneyfied bumps and grinds. In a separate bit, she vanished into a box as a magician's assistant, but demonstrated conclusively that she is one child star who won't need...
Died. Reginald John Connelly, 67, British composer and music publisher, a onetime vaudeville pianist who authored or co-authored more than 200 songs, but is best remembered for a 1925 ditty dashed off with Fellow Trouper Jimmy Campbell on a train ride between engagements, Show me the Way to Go Home; in Bournemouth, England...
...appealing showman named Elliott Reid flew down to Washington a fortnight ago with nothing less in mind than mimicking President Kennedy for the pleasure of the capital's press corps, most of the Cabinet officers, and the President himself. The result: Kennedy was convulsed, and Good Trouper Reid was once again "discovered...
Born. To Sir Laurence Olivier, 54, Britain's towering trouper, and his Tony-winning third wife, Actress Joan (A Taste of Honey) Plowright, 32: a son, their first child and his second (the other, by First Wife Jill Esmond, is now 24 and roving in the Far East); in Hove, East Sussex...
...about the American audience. Waxing eloquent, he praised the public as "hungry for culture." In another place, however, he called the theatre a place "where men sleep and women try to look pretty and hold on until it's over." The explanation of this paradox is that (as every trouper knows) there are good audiences and bad audiences, one for one kind of vague generalization and another for its opposite...