Word: hoofers
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...dance routine at home, missed his footing, fell, broke his right ankle, had to bow out of Hollywood's Easter Parade. To help a pal, Fred Astaire, who very loudly removed his dancing shoes last year, happily bounded out of retirement into Kelly's role. Said bald Hoofer Fred about retirement: "I'll always talk about it, but I'll probably never...
Jolson is grey-haired now, and looks more like a double-breasted businessman than the skinny, blackface comedian that the U.S. remembers. The Jolson Story was obviously having a happy ending. Said Old Hoofer Jolson (whose fourth wife is 24): "If there weren't such a thing as years nobody would think I'm old. I may not be alive in ten seconds, but I feel better than I have in 20 years...
...dulls a bright satiric idea, and the songs, with the quaint exception of a Hibernian lay describing a game of seraphic hurley,* are easy to forget. But in small ways, Toplitzky often goes over big. Comic Frank Marlowe does a couple of good wide turns as an overgrown hayseed; Hoofer Walter Long manages to make tap dancing look interesting; Gus Van is delightful as the Irish immigrant, who calls Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy the day he lands, wishes him "a foi,ne year of Catholic action...
...settlement house "flatfoot waltz" contest. From that he went on to be a dance instructor for Vernon and Irene Castle, among others. When he was making $100 a week, he quit to study business administration at Georgia Tech. Said he: "I didn't want to be a hoofer...
Born. To Monte Proser, 41, Manhattan saloonkeeper, and Jane Ball, 24, stage & screen actress, onetime hoofer at Monte's Copacabana: their first child, a son; in Kingston, N.Y. Name: Charles Morgan. Weight...