Word: dancers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somnolent in August, London surged and churned with conflicting streams of humanity: urbanites leaving for the country, vacationers coming back, foreigners seeking refuge or trying to leave for home (see p. 40). All Germans were ordered out by their Embassy. But life went on unchanged for lots of people. Dancer Tilly Losch proceeded with her design to marry young Lord Carnarvon. Promoters went ahead with a walkingstick show, were miffed when Prime Minister Chamberlain refused to let his umbrella be exhibited. But 19 walking sticks owned by Lady du Maurier were there, one containing a telescope, another a gold toothpick...
Mickey Rooney's father gave him his start, aged three, in the Yule family vaudeville act, and the two played together in silent comedies when Mickey was billed as Mickey McGuire. Divorced from Mickey's mother twelve years ago, Joe Yule married Dancer Leato Hullinger, kept his song-&-dance act going as long as vaudeville. Seven years ago he turned up for a two-week engagement as featured comic at the Follies Theatre, a Los Angeles burlesque house which caters to the sailor trade. He has been there ever since. Meanwhile, Mickey's mother had pushed Mickey...
...have dinner; if the weather is right, they ride out to Floyd Bennett Field and hire a plane (all three are licensed pilots). By afternoon, Stan is usually in bed for the day. He gets up in the middle evening, has breakfast at 10 p m. while his wife, Dancer Gloria Garcia, has dinner, usually makes a round of the night clubs until 2 a. m. calls him to his records and turntables...
When the A. F. A. members had departed, an accountant testified that the A. F. A. benefits had profited its out-of-work members nothing, cited other figures in an attempt to show that its financial methods were careless. Two swimmers, a dancer and a show girl from Billy Rose's Aquacade at the New York World's Fair, which the A. F. A. had been supposed to organize, vowed that A. F. A. had double-crossed them in a tiff with Mr. Rose over salary and rehearsal...
...drives for more formal occasions. She also likes diamonds, an occasional champagne cocktail, and U. S. slang, which she puts to individual use. Of ice that does not satisfy her, she will casually observe that it is "stinking lousy," or of someone who bores her, "he stinks." A good dancer, she is fond of other good dancers like slinky Cesar Romero, lanky Lee Bowman. There was talk of a Bowman-Henie romance until it became known that Sonja, noting Bowman's high hairline, had baldly advised him to get fitted for a toup...