Word: cantor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professional protesters cleared their throats and gave tongue. As the hysteria mounted and the astonished General shinnied up the nearest tree, the angry clamor drowned out the less exciting things, that Morgan had also said. Prominent Jews shrieked: "Savors of Naziism . . . palpably anti-Semitic ... an outrageous libel. . . ." Comedian Eddie Cantor bought two full columns of advertising space in the New York Times (price: $660) to shout in 12-point type...
Producer Eddie Cantor reports that packed Boston audiences are wildly enthusiastic; why is anybody's guess...
Died. Gus Edwards (real name: Gustave Edward Simon), 66, impresario extraordinary in the Keith circuit's hey-de-ho day, German immigrant boy who became "the star maker" (he discovered Cantor, Jessel, Hildegarde, Groucho Marx, a galaxy of others), and old-favorite tunesmith (By the Light of the Silvery Moon, School Days, In My Merry Oldsmobile) who never learned to write a note of music; of a heart attack after long illness; in Los Angeles...
...Cantor, wife of pop-eyed Eddie, was scared pop-eyed but only "slightly injured" in a three-part auto accident: the Cantor car was first struck by a furniture van, then kettle-drummed by 40 bales of hay toppling from a truck...
Mutual was silent for two and a half minutes, then carried on with recorded music from Chicago. The Blue was silent for about a minute and a half, then sloped into an organ recital. NBC's Eddie Cantor show from Hollywood was also knocked off the eastern...