Word: hoofers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphians chortled as a chorus hoofer, picked for his amazing likeness to "Davy" (Edward of Wales), was heckled by imperious Helen Broderick as Queen Mary about amorous escapades on his South American tour which Her Majesty had picked up from Tabloid Tattler Walter Winchell. "Well, it was a nice moonlight night," stammered the hoofer. "... I remember we got to talking about Havelock Ellis and after that everything is blank." Meanwhile Leslie Adams as a too-stout George V leered, "I'll tell you what, Davy. We'll go to Bali-the Island of Bali-and stir up some...
...little Reri from Tahiti, native star of the film Tabu; Miss Universe and the next two prizewinners fresh from Galveston's beauty contest; mincing Albert Carroll (without makeup) and his impersonations. Better than any of these, the gangling 17-year-old named Hal LeRoy is a new loose-leg hoofer with the appeal of a playful, intelligent puppydog. The show was his whenever he danced...
...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...