Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After almost a half century on the boards, oldtime Showgirl Sophie Tucker finally got to play Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. The occasion was the biggest one-night stand of her career: the Sophie Tucker Golden Jubilee Testimonial. Driving up to the front door in a gilded 1903 Ford and rolling-into the Grand Ballroom like a great float (a 24-carat cloth-of-gold gown, a Mr. John hat with diamonds and foot-high white aigrettes, a white mink coat), Sophie sat down to a filet mignon dinner with some 1,700 admirers, who paid their way in with...
Berle, Betty Mutton, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Froman, Joe E. Lewis, got up to reminisce about buxom Sophie Abuza of Hartford, Conn., who became Sophie Tucker and made the long haul from singing in the ginmills to the Ziegfeld Follies and the big time. Now pushing 70 and white-thatched, "The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas" will soon open a four-week stint at Manhattan's Latin Quarter. Said she, dabbing her eyes: "Some of the showmen who were around when I began, they're still around, dearie, but very few of the women are around." Sophie...
...Atlantic City, Sophie ("Last of the Red-Hot Mammas") tucker, celebrating her 50th anniversary in show business at 69, proved that she was right up to date by announcing her new number for next season: I'm a Three-D Mamma with a Big Wide Screen...
...showmanship display began in 1947 when a left-wing group among the 34,000 members of Local 1031 threatened to take over at union meetings because the attendance was so small. Darling met the challenge by importing topflight entertainers, e.g., Jimmy Durante. Eddie Cantor, Jack Carson, and Sophie Tucker, to perform at meetings, soon had the 3,500-seat auditorium filled to overflowing. The union now spends $10,000 a month on show's, which include its own chorus of union girls, "the 1031 Dancing Darlings." The leftists haven't had a chance since...
...Student Council filed a report citing a lack of understanding between undergraduates and student waiters. It suggested that if upperclassmen instead of freshmen took the jobs it might remove friction as well as make the jobs more popular. Bliss Perry replaced J. Tucker Murray in English A. Murray had brought lectures to the course, while students in the know predicted that Perry would place far greater emphasis on literature...