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...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...
...became famous in the Folies Bergere. In his most recent Scandals, George White introduced the now virtually incessant Black Bottom. In Manhattan Mary, he supplies a prospective successor-the Five Step. Mr. White himself momentarily joins the cast to exhibit this gyration, recalling days when he was an humble hoofer** for his now greatest rival, Florenz Ziegfeld. This innovation is second only, in importance, to the appearance in the pit of Mr. Wynn leading the orchestra, in which process his back begins to itch-something that well trained conductors' backs never do. But Mr. Wynn's does...
...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...