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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Central Square--Al Jolson in "Say it with Songs". Reviewed in this issue...
This week at the Central Square theatre one may see and hear Al Jolson in a vocal movie called "Say It With Songs." The only reason that this picture was made at all was in order to give Al Jolson a chance to burst forth from the screen in many of his singing orgies. And if you are a follower of the famous "mammy singer," you should by all means go to see this show. If, on the other hand, you do not like vocal refrain every few minutes throughout the picture, this is not the show...
Central Square--"Say it With Songs" with Al Jolson...
...murdering the police chief of Gastonia, got going again last week at Charlotte after repeated delays (TIME, Sept. 23). The 16 defendants, mostly Northern organizers of the National Textile Workers' Union (Communist), hired a new lawyer-a big-framed, ingratiating Baptist named Frank Flowers who voted for Al Smith and has conservative social views. His type and standing were expected to help the "atheistic" labor radicals with the fundamentalist jury. Further help to the defendants, who were pleading they shot in self-defense when Sheriff Aderholt came to "raid" their headquarters, seemed to lie in recent episodes...
...Wann, Okla., Rancher Al Gottlieb told how his pastures were parched with drought, how his 500 steers refused to eat the yellow grass, became lean. He went to Kansas City, said he bought 500 pairs of green goggles, fitted them on the steers. Then they ate ravenously, grew...