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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only last spring, Al Jolson vowed that he would never have a radio show of his own. Why should he bother? The Technicolor movie based on his life (Columbia's The Jolson Story) was wowing the box office. His records were selling better than they had at the height of his first career in the '20s. And he could get all the radio work he needed as a guest star...
Such successful plays as "Allegro" and "man and Superman" were sold out almost as soon as the box office windows opened. Abrams said, although his agency did manage to fill some orders for those shows...
Despite the summer doldrums, a slump in good new pictures and the British tax scare (TIME, Sept. 22), some box offices were enjoying a brisk little boom on reissues...
Hepcat Hurdle. On the West Coast, some jukebox operators upped their price to 10? a record. In San Francisco, Jukebox King Jack Ehrlich reported some resistance to dime-a-record, three-for-a-quarter players. But in San Jose the new dime jukeboxes paid for their coin-box alterations in a week, showed a 50% increase in gross take...
...that's Harvard sportsmanship," mumbled one press-box delegate...