Word: buchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jolson Sings Again (Sidney Buchman; Columbia) is the predictable sequel to The Jolson Story, which three years ago became, to almost everybody's surprise, a smash boxoffice hit. The Jolson Story had wide repercussions in show business. It put the old Jolson songs of the '20s on the nation's jukeboxes. It gave Jolson himself, sixtyish and almost forgotten, new fame & fortune...
Jolson Sings Again begins prosaically enough where the first movie left off, but it soon becomes a fascinating look at Hollywood backstage. Producer Sidney Buchman gives a close explanation of how he pulled off his neatest trick-the synchronizing of Jolson's singing voice with Actor Larry Parks's gestures and lips. He has also decked out the whole exhibition with a brilliant display of soundstage techniques and gadgets. The result is a dizzy scramble of fact and fiction. In the sequences showing the filming of The Jolson Story, Larry Parks plays both himself and the "real life...
Conductor Artur Rodzinski, haggard and unshaven, arrived in Salzburg three days late on his concert rehearsal schedule. Explaining his delay, he told friends that he and Moral Re-Armer Frank Buchman, attending an Oxford Group conference in Caux-sur-Montreux, Switzerland, had had a furious, long-drawn-out quarrel (Rodzinski did not say what about). Off to Rome on the next leg of his concert tour, the conductor asked a TIME correspondent to "spare me the doubtful honor of ever again calling me 'ardent Buchmanite...
...looking up again for M.R.A. At last year's World Assembly, 5,000 delegates held their sessions at an Alpine resort hotel the Buchmanites had newly purchased in Switzerland. In Los Angeles last week, Assembly delegates ate, slept and lounged in a brand-new seven-story local headquarters. "Buchmanism" never seems to worry about funds. But its sources of income, like the number of its converts, are matters that Buchmanites are vague about. Says Founder Frank Buchman solemnly: "Where God guides, God provides...
...skeptical Scottish undergraduate named Loudon Hamilton, who, when Buchman first urged him to listen for God's instructions, replied: "I have been accustomed to address God myself on occasion . . . but that was only a one-way communication. If God were to speak to me, as you suggest, I am not quite sure it would not be somewhat uncomfortable." * The real Oxford Movement took place in the mid-19th century under the leadership of John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman, John Keble and Edward Pusey. * Said Dr. Buchman, in a New York World-Telegram interview: I thank heaven...