Word: als
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyone knows that Mr. Roosevelt, even aside from politics, has a great admiration for New York's Al. This little book, only 40 pages long, therefore comes closer to be Jonathan's account of David than Boswell's account of Johnson. It is campaign literature in the sense that it is wholly favorable to the Democratic candidate, but it is not campaign literature in the sense that the writings of Willebrandt or Heflin or the vaporings of Dr. Stratton are. Mr. Roosevelt says nothing, or hardly anything of the Republicans. In straightforward language, he merely recounts the record of Al...
...Singing Fool Jolson is Al Stone, a singing waiter at an inferior nightclub, who is daft over a revue-girl (Josephine Dunn). He writes a song, sings it to the revue-girl, is heard by one Marcus (Edward Martindel), a theatrical shogun. Shogun Marcus, impressed, wants Al to write more songs, gives Molly, the revue-girl, a break. Four years later Al & Molly are Broadway pets, but Al loses Molly, who becomes infatuated with John Perry (Reed Howes). There is a three-year-old child called Sonny Boy (David Lee), who escapes artificiality so completely that a hypersensitive cinemaddict feels...
Molly takes Sonny Boy to Paris, there gets a divorce. Al gives up Broadway and buries himself in vagrancy until he returns to his first stomping-ground. Grace (Betty...
Bronson) is a cigaret girl who has always loved Al. She persuades him to return to Broadway. Marcus has been looking for him. He joins a show, again gulps huzzas. Then word comes that Sonny Boy is dying in a Manhattan hospital. Here is the opportunity for the "Laugh, Clown. Laugh'' pishtish which was ignored in The Jazz Singer, when instead of going on with the show, Jolson went to synagog, substituted for his father, the dying cantor. With his son dead in the hospital, Al takes his turn behind the footlights, sings "Sonny...
...Singing Fool (Al Jolson)-Al Jolson and an extraordinary child...