- By Jim Evans
- Entertainment
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Smart Talk SMART TALK By Laconia Crisp, N.P.
TROOPER: Last weekend, the crew at the Opera House here in Underbelly, Texas, removed the movie screen so the Lengua Loco County Thespian Players could present Annie Get Your Gun, or Annie Gitcher Gun, as the citizenry calls it.
Lurlene Johnson played the title role on a sprained ankle. “She’s a real trooper,” gushed Hubert Johnson, the Underbelly Prerecorder’s TV, movie, drama, and gun show critic.
At the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, we know he should have called Ms. Johnson a trouper.
A troupe is a group of theatrical performers. Such a group often likes pretense — their occupation, after all — and loves to use theatre instead of theater. Any of their number who sacrifices for the solidarity of the troupe is called a real trouper. The show must go on, and all that.
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