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...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...
...world's most successful tattler, McKelway does more than tattle. His aching concern is the "Legacy of an Ex-Hoofer"-the effect of Winchellism on the standards of the press. When Winchell began gossiping in 1924 for the late scatological tabloid Evening Graphic, no U. S. paper hawked rumors about the marital relations of public figures until they turned up in divorce courts. For 16 years gossip columny spread until even the staid New York Times whispered that it heard from friends of a son of the President that he was going to be divorced. "The Graphic...
...balding oldtime hoofer, Frank Wallace, announcing himself as Cinemactress Mae West's undivorced husband (he said he was married to her in 1911), claimed a share in her $500,000-a-year income (TIME, July 19, 1937). All he got from Miss West was grudging confirmation of the marriage. Last week Song & Dance Man Wallace tried again. Shifting his attack to her fat-faced, multiple-chinned manager, James A. Timony, Wallace sought damages of $105,000, charging that Timony had threatened his life, conspired against his chances for employment, assumed "the position and relationship of a common-law husband...