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Despite his halo of blond hair and seraphic smile, and those aphorisms he kept delivering in the movie The Little Prince, Steven Warner, 8, is a seasoned trouper. On a jaunt to Hollywood, Steven took along his bus-driver parents John and Rita Warner and his sister Mandy, 10, to enjoy his fame. In an appearance on Dinah!, he brought down the house when asked what he talked to other kids about. "The usual," he said. "My film." And when Gene Wilder, who played with Steven in Prince, protested, "This boy is just being exploited; he isn't having...
...Metropolitan Opera production of Götterdämmerung, the singer was ensnared by a shaky staircase. As she stepped from a stage platform onto the stairs, the structure collapsed, sending her tumbling four feet to the floor. Hospitalized with a dislocated shoulder, face cuts and multiple bruises, Good Trouper Nilsson dismissed her injuries with "I did not hurt my teeth, which would have affected my ability to sing," and though in pain, appeared triumphantly on opening night. She also dismissed set-happy stage directors, who, she said, "think more elaborate sets will make opera better...
...reached such a pitch that it sounded suspiciously like a claque. Debbie, who was one of the supporting cast of big stars at Nixon's San Clemente pre-election party, limped into Washington last month with a revival of the 1919 musical Irene-and, despite help from Fellow Trouper Patsy Kelly, got only so-so reviews. Except for one. On the aisle was Debbie's old friend the Chief Executive himself-attending a D.C. theater for the first time as President. Afterward he predicted that when the play reaches Broadway, it will be a big hit, "perhaps...
...World, at Dublin's Abbey Theater. By the standards of the time, the play was considered risque and derogatory to Irish society; the controversy escalated to street riots. Both Craig and the Abbey survived the dispute. She cultivated an American audience during six U.S. tours, and remained a trouper for more than 60 years...
...ragtime dances were like. In a Harlem retirement home, she found 89-year-old Ida Forsyne Hubbard, a popular dancer at the turn of the century who had known Joplin and performed to his music. With Jones at,.the piano and Ostlere on the boards, the old trouper instructed both in the rhythm and techniques of ragtime. Says Jones: "She conducted me, forced me to play it as she remembered Joplin. With a nod and her voice, she taught me what Joplin himself sounded like." She also taught Ostlere dances like the Dude Walk and Back Step Prance...