Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 15 | Little Comedian Began Hoofing at Early Age; Still Going Strong

v v- v S Little Comedian Began Hoofing at Early Age S 5 Still Going Strong A NEW YORK THEATRE SURVEY S By LEONARD HALL NEW YORK Dec 31 NEA NEA- NEA RIghtly at about 10 oclo o'clock k in fn the star dressing room of ot the Waldorf rf theatre a meek little Ittle Irishman lie lies fe flat Hat on his hi tummy on an an ironing board while a big professor or in a gym ym shirt tries to knead hi his body Into something remotely resembling its normal shape shapO He is Will wm Mahoney king ex-king clown of ot Keith Keith-Albee vaudeville and now bombing Br Broadway adway as as costar costar co- co star of G Gene ne Bucks Buck's gay gay- musical show sho Take the Air At about 10 each evening Mis- Mis ther Mahoney Is badly In need of a little pulling together together hence hence the professor with the persuasive hands DOWNSTAIRS NOSEDIVE For a n. lot of things happen to the mild little man and all of them are re sudden and violent The ace trick In Wills Will's bag of buffoonery is isan isan isan an astonishing dancing fall which he does many times In the course of ot the evenings evening's evening A A nosedive on the stage was good enough for hi hla vaudeville fans in a a. day a league but when Mahoney went into the class he felt he must beat beat- down a a. little for the boiled shirts He therefore planned and executed a a. staggering stunning fall down a a. along along long flight of stairs Now he does It ItS nine times a a week He will continue continue con con con- to do it until he cracks his devoted neck In addition Mahoney has hasa a a. long ong and screaming comedy scene with the business ss end of a a. young and ambitious mule w who o kicks kick like lightning and strikes harder Will WillIs Is now we wearing the on stern of one thigh a a. bruise as big as ns a saucer just just a merry Christmas and a happy New Year from one of ot those thos gattling gun hoofs You can very well weIl se see that theme the life me of this great comic da dancer Is not like th the policeman's an entirely an-entirely entirely happy barmy one S Mahoney's life Ue is one of r. r those story book things It If a budding budding budding bud bud- budi i ding brought It into inlo a movie scenario factory the head hend headman headman m man n would kick him into the alle alley as one gone gone ga gi Will has been hoofing for dear life since he ha was 7 He Ho began shaking his feet in the Okay Saloon in Spokane Spokane kane reamed Beamed with his big brother Frank Sometimes as much as 5 5 a night was hurl hurled d at them by the clients S SIN IN BOTTLE OPERA As the boy grew gew older he took up the ghastly life life- of ot a vagabond Inthe Inthe in inthe the dim and dismal byways of how business They sang sl shy songs with an nn time old-time bottle opera pera or medicine show They worked more quarters out of Qt the lushes in a a. hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred flung far-flung barrooms They picked up it a dubious Mexican poodle named Daisy and peddled her tricks and their songs and steps around the southwest in Chicago and finally finally finally final final- ly in Australia At l last st Frank reformed He now is selling washing machines Will however caught on in a big way and after arter a a. season searon In Scandals became the royal roal flush of ot the big time and Is n now w slapping down the New Yorkers and visiting firemen as a regular sensation of Broad Broad- wa way AMONG THE FOLKS Ferenc Molnar witty Hungarian author of ot Liliom and other plays beloved in America is a a. feature of ot th the Broadway Broad first nights these eve- eve evenings A man of at 50 with pink cheles white hair and a monocle that seems to have grown on his face He speak Eng Eng- lish And Ina ma Claire is the queen of ot the premieres The blonde star isn't working at present but she turns turne up at every opening looking like a a. queen In a white wrap and and alwa always Ts surrounded by a dozen adoring males Just as lovely ely as ar she was in the days of of nOt t to be bo catty catty eatty- The Quaker Girl In 1912