Word: hoofer
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Benny's plight has not been shared by those of his rivals who depend on punch rather than finesse-particularly ex-Hoofer Bob Hope, who has been going great guns before soldier audiences. Last week Hope put on his tenth straight broadcast from a training camp (location censored). Benny has found that incalculable whoops and whistles upset his expertly worried lines. No ad-libber, he has to stick to his painfully prepared script, feels that a lot of mugging thrown in for a visual audience is a sin against his radio listeners...
...white-rimmed goggles. But the eyes still popped, the voice still beckoned, the legs still scissored as though in time with an incredibly fast march. More of an imp than a comic, more of a song salesman than a singer, more of a ground-coverer than a hoofer, Eddie Cantor still rated the big time for his invaluable gift of always seeming like a nice little guy instead of an actor...
M.G.M. has again grabbed a hold of Hollywood's sure-fire formula for money-making movies. It has tossed together a bunch of old song favorites, a couple of snappy new tunes, some lavish dance spectacles, a hoofer who can hoof, and a singer who can sing. The result is "Lady Be Good," a sizzling pot-pourri of entertainment which tops anything in its line that has been turned out since Ann Sheridan became the sweetheart of the Harvard Lampoon...
...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...