[Michael Cantor]

Virginia Katherine McMath Redux

Oh yes, they were billed as a pair,
but Fred was the swell and a stare -
he picked up the lass
when she fell on her ass,
and redid her tap sounds with flair.

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[Catherine Chandler]

Ernest Evans

Ernest Evans' famous song
still has us twist and shout along.

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[Roger Slater]

Virginia Katherine McMath Reredux

Virginia could dance well, no doubt,
but somehow the world found this out
...only when she
...danced with Fred, and yet he
could dance well with her or without.

[Marion Shore]

Vivian Mary Hartley

When Viv starred as the belle of the ball,
she held all the menfolk in thrall,
and y'all must admit
that, for a Brit,
she had a darn good Southern drawl!

[Roger Slater]

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

Though secretly she had her qualms
concerning that part of the psalms
... that said God was real,
... it was not a big deal.
She never stopped handing out alms.

[Janet Kenny]

sorry, not funny--or not very

Mary Anne Evans

Mary Anne Evans could write up a storm.
She was deep, she was learnéd, but being a woman
at first earned no money. She wouldn’t conform
but lived out of wedlock. Delightfully human,
her face was no asset. She looked like a horse
and she leaped over hurdles and won every race.
She galloped through topics and time. No discourse
left her pen without sympathy, judgement and grace.

[Anne Bryant-Hamon]

Marion,

I'm kind of doing your challenge backwards, but what the hell.....


Publius

Publius shook off King George’s chains
a wee bit timidly. I understand –
I have my own King George; he makes my veins
bulge prematurely. No one owns the land
for God’s sake! Seems it’s in our very blood
to want to rule each other, make a name
for ourselves. It’s so hard to find the good –
much easier to search out ‘who’s to blame’.

[Marion Shore]

Lucille Fay LeSueur

Mildred did more than she oughter
for that girl. What a great mom we thought her.
But her mothering skills
would have given you chills
off camera. Just ask her daugher!

[Michael Cantor]

Jules Garfinkle

The stories of women he had'll
make you wonder whom he didn't straddle-
his films would unroll
urban body and soul,
but it's said that he died in the saddle.

[Michael Cantor]

Issur Danielovitch Demsky

"Danielovitch Demsky's my name,"
is nothing you'd want to proclaim -
but shortened to Spartacus
it echoed with all of us -
and his son got a lift from the fame.