Word: hoofer
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...Broadway, from casting office to dressing room. On his first assignment, Emcee Mike Wallace, smoothly exuding an out-of-towner's wonderment at the workings of the theater, used his tape recorder to get French Singer Lilo's story of her sudden stardom in Can-Can, veteran Hoofer Pat (Guys and Dolls) Rooney's advice to youngsters (first rule: "Don't whistle in the dressing room"), Shirley Booth and Basil Rathbone in a wake for the late Empire Theater, and Rosalind Russell with songs from Wonderful Town. This week's guest list: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Elliott...
...Dancing in the Dark, the last being a lift from the original Band Wagon, a Broadway musical that starred Astaire and his sister Adele in 1931. In other respects the new musical has nothing to do with the old. Its casual plot describes the attempt of an oldtime Hollywood hoofer to get a foot back on Broadway as the partner of a temperamental ballerina. The show they are rehearsing is a sort of boogie Faust, and there is the devil to pay in the form of an overemotional producer (Jack Buchanan). Also on hand for some mild laughs: Pianist Oscar...
...City Is Dark (Warner) is a cops & robbers movie that captures some of the hard-hitting realism of the early-'30s gangster pictures. It spins a familiar yarn about a reformed ex-con (well played by Hoofer Gene Nelson in a nondancing role) whose past catches up with him when an escaped San Quentin prisoner (Ted De Corsia) tries to force him to join in a bank heist. This time the cop is a hard-eyed, tough-fisted police sergeant (Sterling Hayden...
...ethical problem in the business at all. Says he: "Product names are a part of our language-we always say Kleenex or Coke instead of cleansing tissue or soft drink. Getting publicity for a brand name is no more different or immoral than getting it for a singer or hoofer." As for sending gifts to cooperating writers and com-ics, Mayo says that's nothing but sheer friendliness: "Why, at Christmastime, everybody in the U.S. exchanges gifts-they're all Schlockmeisters...
...charged that the Stork Club had refused to serve her food (TIME, Nov. 12). Cried Sullivan: "I despise Walter Winchell for what he has done to Josephine Baker. Long before [Senator] McCarthy came into the character-assassination racket, Winchell was one of [its] originators . . . This small-time vaudeville hoofer who never even got to the Palace . . . has developed into a small-time Hitler ... He has capitalized...