Word: troupers
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...magazines make their debuts this week, one an old trouper in a gaudy new dress, the other a flossy stranger dedicated to filling a self-discovered void...
...Butterfield 8) Mann directs the show with tact and skill. He makes the most of Martin's charm, the least of Hayward's flim-flamboyance. And in Ralph Meeker he viciously personifies the police power in a native Fascist regime. But it is Actor White-a British trouper usually cast as a potty colonel, a flaccid vicar, or a dear old rose fiend in Sussex-who domi nates the audience as a waving cobra fascinates a mouse. With his small, reptilian grin and oily suppleness, he conveys the immemorial image of the big political snake, the everlasting reason...
Died. Adeline de Walt Reynolds, 98, Hollywood's oldest active trouper; in Hollywood. Forbidden to enter the theater by her Iowa farm family, "Grandma" Reynolds married a sawmill operator, raised four children, finally achieved her lifelong goal in 1941, when at the age of 78, she was featured with Jimmy Stewart in Come Live with Me, went on to earn credits in 35 films and many TV shows...
...others, Theodore Kazanoff is quite wonderfully snarling and self-contained as Bloody Five, and Maggie Fiskind, old trouper, swaggers and struts well enough as long as she doesn't have to sing...
Carnival's whole atmosphere comes charmingly to life at the very outset when, at dusk, first one trouper and then another straggles onstage. As the stage fills with proprietors and performers and roustabouts, as tents go up and booths slide into place and flags flap and sway, the bright lights come on, the lilting music soars, and the multicolored mongrel troupe parades. Then Marco the Magnificent appears, and the gal he forever two-times; then Paul, the lamed, embittered puppeteer, and the pal he forever snaps at. Soon, a wispy, skinny-limbed, wide-eyed Lili (Anna Maria Alberghetti) turns...