Word: trouper
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...plot revolves about three persons--the young Italian composer who likes to keep his audience waiting, and finds that temperament has serious after-effects; Jan. a harpist, a born trouper and a thoroughly amusing one; and Tad. scion of an old New York family, who behaves is the traditional manner of the reprobate sons whom we have grown to expect in American fiction. How the troupe travels the rocky road to Broadway, only to find the inevitable catastrophe awaiting them, and how the heroine appears at the end in a tent show somewhere in Georgia--all this is told nimbly...
Fritz Leiber was born in Chicago, acted in public school, stock, and the companies df Robert Mantell, Julia Marlowe, Ben Greet. For 25 years he has played Shakespeare up and down the nation. He is a trouper to the core-one of the few who resolutely keeps good dramatic company...
Because Edward Hugh Sothern, 70-year-old Shakespearean trouper, refused to be interviewed by reporters from the Amarillo, Tex., News-Globe, editor Gene Howe, irascible critic of Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, June n, 1928, April i, 19-29) referred to Actor Sothern as a "pink-toed high-hatter." Advised the News-Globe: "Don't pay any of your good money to see him." From the stage, Actor Sothern announced that he was returning to the management the $500 he was to receive for the performance, saying: "My toes are not pink. This is the worst thing that...