Word: hoofer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joey. John O'Hara's hoofer-heel set to music by Rodgers & Hart...
...Editor Gauvreau hired a vaudeville hoofer named Walter Winchell, "a prodigy who, by some form of self-hypnosis, came to feel himself the center of his time." Gauvreau hoots at Winchell's illiteracy (he called Zola a famed woman writer, described Paris as a seaport city), damns Winchell for perfecting the kind of tabloid journalism he himself did most to encourage. Editing Winchell for libel "developed in me a philosophical imperturbability which, otherwise, my nervous make-up might never have acquired." Said Arthur Brisbane of Winchell's jargon: "Shake speare described it. 'A tale told...
...West's husband, ex-hoofer Frank Wallace, sued the rolling blonde for $1,000 a month separate maintenance, charging her with adultery with her business manager, friendliness with colored and Filipino prizefighters. He said she had kept employers from hiring him after the revelation of their 1911 marriage. // Cinemactress Ann Sothern announced a trial separation from Husband Roger Pryor, gave "our widely divergent activities" as the trouble, // Model Mary Bland Reynolds, Senator Robert R. Reynolds' 23-year-old daughter by his second wife, tried suicide by gas. Her mother blamed "a lovers' quarrel." // Bernarr Macfadden...
...came of age, John O'Hara has spent more time in nightclubs than many men have in bed. He has stayed till closing, seen all the sights, heard all the jargon. His short novel Pal Joey consists of the magnificently illiterate letters of a nightclub crooner and hoofer, an attractive, low and decidedly rubbery heel, describing his greedy world of mice and moola (women and money). Perhaps the most laudable thing about this character is that he might not betray the mice for the moola-but one can't be sure. Joey has now become the combination hero...
...short on men-its best is David Lichine, choreographer as well as dancer-the massine troupe has four of the best: Roland Guerard of Flat Rock, N.C. one of the first U.S.-born Ballet Russers who was allowed to dance under his own name; Frederic Franklin, exuberant British onetime hoofer; and two genuine Russians, Igor Youskevitch and Andre Eglevsky. These dancers perform capably the difficult leaps, entrechats (crossing of the feet in midair) tours en l'air (twirls in the air) demanded by the classic style...