Word: bombo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jokes. He gives money to beggars, is shrewd at driving bargains, has been known to refuse several thousand dollars to sing for five minutes at a private party on the ground that at a party his status must be either that of host or guest. His best shows were Bombo and Sinbad, his pictures The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool. Last winter he improved his standing by marrying Ruby Keeler, a popular little tap-dancer tutored by Mary Louise (''Texas") Guinan...
...fiction of hip-flask Florida could be more faithfully supplied with the spirit and flesh of the period than is this romance of the joyous peninsula in its rum and bombo days. It is thorough work, racy reading, a story packed with bags of beauty and of darkness...
...risk of receiving infernal machines by mail, this department nominates Al Jolson as the big pet of joy, in fact as the geyser of gaiety. After an endless wandering in Bombo, he is preparing to go into action in Big Boy at approximately 9 p. m. every evening of the winter except Sunday...
...Jolson, after three years in Bombo, is at work on something...
Married. Miss Bernice Hart, actress, who was recently prominent in Bombo, to Harold Bridgman, Captain of the University of Pennsylvania Polo Team. They eloped...