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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actor Eddie (Whoopee) Cantor confessed that when he had heard of Mr. Rosenwald's offer to protect his employes' accounts, he had wired for a job as office boy. The confession was in Caught Short, humorous story of his market troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Heroes, Wags, Sages | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Before he was 20, Asa Yoelson ran away from Washington, D. C, where he had learned to sing in the synagogue with his father, Cantor Yoelson. He got a job barking for a side-show with a country circus, later went into vaudeville and started blacking his face because he noticed that crowds always laughed at a black man. He worked with Dockstader's minstrels, then for the Shuberts. He was the first minstrel to get down on his knees when, in the chorus of a song, he came to the word "Mammy." Now a multimillionaire, third* richest actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Richest is David Warfield, who put his savings into Loew stock. Second richest is Eddie Cantor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Elected. Eddie Cantor, singing funnyman; to be President of the National Vaudeville Artists Association; succeeding Actor-Producer Fred Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Earl Carroll's Sketch Book. Early in this gaudy cycle there occurs a sound cinema of Comedian Eddie Cantor, who wrote the libretto, singing a song of his own devising called "Legs, Legs, Legs." Thereafter a large and lovely group of girls attired in summery yellow dresses crowd out upon the stage, lie on their backs on an imitation grass terrace, raise their legs high in the air and wave them slowly to & fro. This revel sets the pitch for the rest of the entertainment, which fulfills every standard-anatomical, luxurious, careless-that is associated with Producer Carroll. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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