Word: hoofer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wallace's picture zipped over 3,000-mi. of telephone wire to Hollywood. Mae West: "Yes, I remember that face. But I was never married to anybody." ¶Manhattan newshawks rooted up an-other Frank Wallace in a theatrical hotel with his dancing partner, Trixie La Mae. Readily Hoofer Wallace admitted it was he who had married Mae West in Milwaukee. Hearst's New York American said that he said: "We got along swell for a year. Then Mae was offered $350 a week and I said 'Go on up,' and I went back...
Exactly a year ago tall, dark George Marshall, without a speck of publishing experience, was put in charge of the Times. He began life as a smalltime vaudeville hoofer. During the War his father died, left him a bankrupt laundry. From it Son George built the most successful laundry business in Washington, with 50 gaudy blue-&-gold branch stores on strategic street corners, each blazoning the slogan "Long Live Linen...
...Horton) have ordered from an agency. A fatuous waiter makes ridiculous monologs. At odd moments a comely chorus dances, sings and wears elaborate costumes. Xone of this inter feres with the elegant genuflections or swift bright patter of Fred Astaire who, next to Bill Robinson the most nimble-footed hoofer on the U. S. stage, is rapidly developing into a first-class cinema come dian. Good shot: Astaire putting on his tie, coat and hat thrown to him by his valet as he sings, tap-dances about the room...
...Skelly, 43, comedian; when his automobile was struck by a train; near West Cornwall, Conn. At times in a difficult career he was altar boy, prizefight manager, first baseman for the Boston "Braves," circus acrobat, medicine man hawker, trouper in Japan, China. His greatest stage success was the hoofer, "Skid," in Burlesque which he also played in a cinema version called The Dance of Life. Other plays: No, No, Nanette, Fiddlers Three, The Night Boat, Fifty Million Frenchmen (in England). His last was Come What May (TIME...
...dance director, Joan Blondell his affectionate secretary, Ruby Keeler his star tap-dancer, Dick Powell his best juvenile, Guy Kibbee his fenag-ling partner. Philip Faversham, son of famed William Faversham who was a matinee idol 30 years ago, has a bit, his second cinema part, as a frightened hoofer. The developments leading up to the dances and the NRA take too long and the line of rehearsing dancers which is their unvarying background grows monotonous; otherwise Footlight Parade is a good sample of its type. Songs: "Honeymoon Hotel," "Shanghai Lil,'' "By a Waterfall...