Word: cantors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eddie Cantor, famed comedian: "My press agent announced that I have asked permission to organize a Broadway committee for the nomination of Governor Smith of New York for President. I was quoted as saying: 'Don't laugh about this. I'm serious. . . . The time for ridicule will be when he gets into the campaign. A few good lines about an opponent will be worth more than all the ponderous political arguments in the world...
Died. William Armhold, 94, "oldest rabbi in the U. S."; in Atlantic City. Born in Schuchtern-Baden, Germany, in 1829; he came to the U. S. in 1853; founded a synagogue in Pittsburgh; was cantor of the Keneseth Israel Temple, Philadelphia, for 52 years; retired from active work in 1913. Said the Public Ledger (Philadelphia): "He was a leader in every Jewish movement in this city...
Died. The Rev. Pincus Minkowsky, 67, famed Jewish scholar, cantor of the Moscow synagogue until Bolshevik persecution caused his flight; in Boston...
...Eddie Cantor is, of course, the master of ceremonies. He is inordinately funny. The only criticism brought against him was that his virtually permanent possession of the stage made a monotony of merriment...
Mary Eaton's name is prominently displayed in the electric illumination above the playhouse. Her fine flavor of respectability made an excellent foil for Cantor's semi-Rabelaisian style of turbulence...