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...Author. Of indefinite age but of immediately perceptible dimensions, Mae West resembles her prototype, the over stuffed houri of the '90s. On the stage since she was eight, she has been a hoofer, singer, weightlifter, can still support 500 Ibs. She writes her own plays, casts, stages, directs them, plays the star roles. When admitting to 27 years she wrote her first play, Sex, for which she was arrested and served ten days on Manhattan's Welfare Island. Of her other plays, Pleasure Man was closed by the police after 3 days' run in Manhattan. The Drag never reached Manhattan...
Princess Charming. Even with a book rewritten by the late Hoofer Jack Donahue, music by Albert Sirmay and Arthur Schwartz, scenery by Joseph Urban, Princess Charming might have been a presentation more on the lavish side than on the entertaining. The fact that it has sparkle and distinction is almost entirely attributable to blithe, blonde, beauteous Jeanne Aubert, the French comedienne whose husband (Packer Nelson Morris of Chicago) lately sought to enjoin her from taking part in theatricals. Audiences were delighted with her genuine Franco-American accent,* her thoroughgoing naughtiness, her lip-twisting method of vocal delivery -first brought...
Died. John J. ("Jack") Donahue, 38, famed musicomedian and hoofer (Sunny, Rosalie, Sons o'Guns), magazine fictioneer (Letters of a Hoofer to his Ma), producer (Lost Sheep); after a chronic infection of the kidneys, sinus, heart had caused his collapse while playing Cincinnati in Sons o' Gum; at his home in Manhattan. Born in Charlestown, Mass., he began his theatrical career at 14 by appearing in local amateur nights. Subsequently medicine show entertainer, smalltime vaudeville dancer, he had his first big success in Sunny (1925). Despite the pain in his legs and feet, occasioned by the illness from which...
...veteran hoofer, Mr. Cohan is qualified to put plenty of credible pathos into the part of "Hap" Farrell, of Carroll & Farrell -Songs, Dances & Funny Sayings. With the death of his partner, "Hap" falls upon evil days, tries to rob a man, is regenerated and goes out West where he makes some money. So inexorable is the fascination of life on a tank-town vaudeville circuit that he returns to a profession in which he can never be successful just because "every song & dance man always thinks he is the best one in the world...
...chief reason that "Sweetie" is superior to the average of its school is that it dares for a moment or so to indulge in just a trace of satire. There is for example the episode when Mr. Jack Oakie, as a hoofer turned freshman, discovers that the Alma Mater song of his school is too dirge-like for his taste. There upon he writes a jazz version of his own, which he calls "Alma Mammy" and sings in his best Jolson manner before the assembled students. Even the football game is not taken too seriously for instance the dumb...