Word: hoofers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Shannons of Broadway-HOOFER AND WIFE FOOL SMALL TOWN CROOK MUSICAL...
...SHANNONS OF BROADWAY - A hoofer and his wife buy a hotel in the hinterland (TIME...
Take the Air is mostly about a hoofer who gets stranded in and about a Texas aviation field. Through the romantic entanglements of a Spanish aviatrix with a throaty lieutenant, the dark plots of a Spanish smuggler-dancer, the comedy love interest of a hot-dog lady and a splay-faced sergeant, he tap-dances his way to the heart of a pretty heiress. All this is played with the aid of a large cluster of well-dressed chorus girls, to gay and trivial songs...
...vaudeville strollers who buy a small town hotel and mingle intrepidly with the lives of the peasants. Both Mr. Gleason and Miss Webster are unfailingly ribald, and the evening is made more so by the shrewd performance of an unknown, one Harry Tyler, as the broken-down vaudeville hoofer...