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...hardness he may have acquired in his many years as a watchdog vanishes when the old trouper gives a vintage performance. Sometimes Deaver, standing in the back of an auditorium, listening one more time to the President using, say, a heroic Scottish ballad to make his pitch, finds his eyes growing moist with a familiar emotion. It is love, of course, a kind of deep filial devotion, and he is filled with it for Ronald Reagan. -By Robert Ajemlan
HOSPITALIZED. Ethel Merman, 74, clarion-voiced Broadway performer for 50 years; for surgery to remove a brain tumor; in New York City. Ever the trouper, Merman regained her speech two days after the operation, and within a week was singing and walking around her room...
...strides. Receiving this year's ribbon and gold-plated medallions was an illustrious quintet of long-lived achievers: Director-Writer-Producer George Abbott, 95; Actress Lillian Gish, 86; Bandleader Benny Goodman, 73; Dancer-Choreographer Gene Kelly, 70; and Conductor Eugene Ormandy, 83. Top-banana stripes went to First Trouper Ronald Reagan, 71. Warmly addressing each of the honorees, he came to Abbott, who is currently reviving his 1936 Broadway show On Your Toes, and addressed him as "Mr. Abbott." (Pause.) "I'm not sure enough about calling him George," said the President, "since I'm temporarily between...
...Western leaders at Versailles, with a formal dinner in the fabled Hall of Mirrors and a king's bedroom for Reagan in the Grand Trianon. Then on to Rome to meet the Pope, as well as Italy's President and Prime Minister. In Britain the old celluloid trouper will canter with the Queen through Windsor Great Park before becoming the first U.S. President ever to address members of both houses of Parliament. Finally, after a NATO summit session in Bonn, there will be a pilgrimage to that oppressively ugly symbol of Communist tyranny, the Berlin Wall. The schedule...
...performs 22 of his songs while telling his version of an entertainer's life and self-inflicted hard times. As the performance progresses, and Hank periodically darts offstage for a "glass of milk," he becomes more surly, maudlin, fatalistic. His life is crumbling; he knows it and, trouper to the end, makes a slam-bang show out of it. So does Carl Chase, who plays Williams. He does not look like Hank; he does not sound much like him. But through craft or luck or force of will, he becomes Williams. The competition is tough, but Chase is giving...