Word: troupers
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...Troop Trouper. Hope has a chin like a snowplow, a nose that led Comic Fred Allen to describe him as "ski-snoot," and a trigger wit that produces a crop of studio stories with every Hope picture. This time, the first day on the set Hope took one look at Miss Lamour's fulsome costume-suit, blouse, stockings, etc.-and exclaimed: "For heaven's sakes, Dorothy, why don't you go home and take something off?" One sequence required him to kiss heavily lipsticked Dorothy three times. When the make-up man brought him a mirror, Hope...
...railbirds, thumbing their racing forms this winter, will look in vain for Mucho Gusto, a name that has brought "much pleasure" to millions of them. After ten years of campaigning, the grand old trouper, fondly known as Gus the Bus, has retired to the Kentucky farm of his owner, Mrs. Kirby Ramsey...
...Grycie," yelled a visiting British tar, "do us a cartwheel!" Gracie Fields, once the world's highest paid comedienne, obliged. Then, opening her full bag of tricks, she displayed the wares that had hoisted her from a shilling-a-week trouper to first lady of the English music halls, at $750,000 a year, before U.S. and British income taxes. Scratching, sniffling, grimacing, Gracie clowned her "low but clean" repertory, squealing high C, telling screwy Lancashire stories, whooping up a community sing with the servicemen packing her audience...
...Lucia Chase, widow of Yonkers' carpet tycoon, Thomas Ewing Jr. Unlike most ballet patrons, Angel Chase is a professional ballerina, dances bit solo roles, solemnly draws a $75 weekly paycheck while regularly losing an estimated $150,000 a year making up the Ballet Theatre's deficit. A trouper who once used to pirouette with famed Dancer Mikhail Mordkin, Ballerina Chase spends her winters touring with the company, has a summer home at Narragansett, occasionally throws quiet parties for her dancer colleagues. Otherwise she works her shapely legs off rehearsing, washes her own tights, spends her time...
...Once a Trouper. In South Bend, unthinking Harry Holubiak pastured his work horse, an oldtime circus performer, near a field where Navy recruits drilled to band music. Later a vet treated the horse for exhaustion...