Possible Clues:

• He won't take steps to maintain silence
• Hoofer, so to speak
• Entertainer with noisy shoes
• One whose act will entertain and carpet will spoil!
• Entertainer can depart as arranged
• Hard shoe entertainer
• Draw off reindeer: I'll be hoofing it
• "Bojangles" Robinson, for one
• Reindeer by water source, one hoofing it noisily
• Astaire, say, parted with short cane, sadly