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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 27, 1947 | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Ending | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Works Like Magic | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 25, 1946 | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

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