Word: al
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shubert--Al Jolson in "Big Boy"--8.15 o'clock. The Papa of the Mama songs...
Milk submitted to the rays was pasteurized (rid of bacteria, including spores, which it ordinarily takes three heatings to kill) al- most instantaneously-but contracted an unpleasant flavor...
...Al Roberts had been successively vanquished by some young brawny Boston Lithuanian. But, then- Johnson was a has-been, knocked out by fat Jess Willard; Smith was a trial horse, only fair; Roberts, who had ever heard of him? Astute, pudgy gentlemen relaxed; the heavyweight situation seemed unchanged. . . . Later came news of the defeat of clever Jack Renault, tough Johnny Risko at the same hands. The hands belonged to square-jawed Jack Sharkey, carried the potential power of dynamite. Binghamton-born, Boston-bred, this Lithuanian with a famed Irish name* served in the navy, has boxed professionally...
...Shubert--Al Jolson in "Big Boy" 8.15 o'clock...
Vitaphone and The Better 'Ole (Syd Chaplin). While Al Jolson mouths "Mammy, Mammy" on the screen, the audience hears Al Jolson throat "Mammy, Mammy" out of what sounds like a loud radio. It is the Vitaphone, now well on its way to fame as purveyor of "canned" music to theatres too small to afford orchestras. After the same slightly harsh, but perfectly synchronized reproduction of Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization...