Word: troupers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years (until 1930) Margaret Matzenauer was one of the most experienced and versatile singers who ever appeared at the Met. A born trouper (daughter of a Hungarian opera conductor), she was able to switch from Carmen to Ortrud or Amneris to Delilah at the drop of a spear. An exception among opera singers (most of whom have to have their parts drilled into them by coaches and conductors), she could sit down at the piano and teach herself the most taxing roles. Always a robust Brünnehilde, Matzenauer became one of the most prodigious (203 Ib.) singers ever...
With these attributes. Cagney manages to suggest George M. Cohan without carbon-copying the classic trouper. He has the Cohan trick of nodding and winking to express approval, the outthrust jaw, stiff-legged stride, bantam dance routines, side-of-the-mouth singing, the air of likable conceit. For the rest, he remains plain Jimmy Cagney. It is a remarkable performance, possibly Cagney's best, and it makes Yankee Doodle a dandy...
...Sothern turns in a heroic performance. Separated from her accustomed role as heroine of M.G.M.'s Maisie series (TIME, Aug. 18), blonde, shapely Trouper Sothern almost saves the show. Her singing of The Last Time I Saw Paris is a model of how to put across that over-bleated dirge. And her version of Lady Be Good should please even a Prime Minister...
...Manhattan in 1903, Godfrey joined the Navy at 16, mastered the banjo in the course of a four-year hitch. Out of the Navy, he scraped along as short-order cook in a Manhattan diner, master of ceremonies in a Chicago hotspot, salesman of cemetery lots in Detroit, vaudeville trouper in Los Angeles. In 1927 he wearied of it all. enlisted in the Coast Guard. While still in the service, he got involved in an amateur radio show in Baltimore, wound up as "Red Godfrey, the Warbling Banjoist." sponsored by a birdseed firm. With the help of Maryland...
...radio husband, a low-lifer, foully murdered, have her suspect Mother Myrt of the crime and run away to think things over. Last week as Donna lay in a Manhattan funeral parlor, a wake of Myrt & Marge fans like Valentino's seemed in the making. Meanwhile oldtime Trouper Myrtle Vail was determined that the show would go on. Just how was a problem that baffled not only her but the collective brains of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet...