Word: hoofers
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...advertises that it is now presenting George M. Cohan in a play of his own composition, "The Return of the Vagabond." But the Colonial is guilty of a slight exaggeration: it very definitely has Mr. Cohan, but it has no play. Here is naught but Broadway's most famous hoofer himself--no misfortune, however, for those of us who are devotees of the worthy gentleman. In much the same way, there is a full cast, but there is really only one character...
...himself--he is magnificent! He grimaces, he mugs, he jigs, he philosophizes whimsically, and he gestures vigorously with his jained Rosseveitian chin. "The Return of the Vagabond" is not a good play: as a matter of fact, it makes no pretense of even being a play. However, a real hoofer will never let his audience down, and this is always good theatre...
Mickey Rooney, the cheeky adolescent of the Hardy pictures, the little tough guy of Boys Town, the flashy little hoofer of Babes in Arms, was going to have to interpret the boyhood of one of the most significant Americans who ever lived. Mickey Rooney was going to interpret a boy, who (like himself) began at the bottom of the American heap, (like himself) had to struggle, (like himself) won, but a boy whose main activity (unlike Mickey's) was investigating, inventing, thinking. Mickey Rooney not only had to make young Tom Edison plausible, he had to create the boyhood...
Died. Jacob Grant Hollenbeck, 72, assistant passenger traffic manager for the Missouri Pacific Railroad (he had retired 24 hrs. before his death) and father of frail, graceful Musicomedy Hoofer Clifton Webb; in St. Louis...
...drama of worldly types caught on a remote mountain in Europe as war breaks out all around them. There is the villainous munitions manufacturer and his actress mistress, formerly a vaudeville performer in America and now posing as a Russian Countess. Clark Gable represents the cabbages as Harry Van, hoofer and friend of the Countess. The tone of Sherwood's play has been lowered to suit the taste of the multitude, and a happy ending weakens the plot. But this is one the whole a superior picture...