Word: cantors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then word comes that Sonny Boy is dying in a Manhattan hospital. Here is the opportunity for the "Laugh, Clown. Laugh'' pishtish which was ignored in The Jazz Singer, when instead of going on with the show, Jolson went to synagog, substituted for his father, the dying cantor. With his son dead in the hospital, Al takes his turn behind the footlights, sings "Sonny...
When Death came to the son of a certain obscure Jewish cantor, at Berlin last week, thousands of Germans mourned and even the President of the Republic...
Except for Harry Lauder, who owns his own show and makes some $10,000 a week, Mr. Yoelson's salary is the largest known in theatrical circles. Marilyn Miller gets $6,000 in Rosali. Eddie Cantor, before his illness, was making $5,000 in Mr. Ziegfeld's Follies. Moran and Mack as a vaudeville team get $3,000 a week...
...suite at the Ritz-Carlton yesterday afternoon Eddie Cantor, famous comedian of Ziegfeld's "Follies", proudly displayed a tiny gold football awarded to him for his services to the Crimson squad six years ago. "You bet, I'm one of the boys," he chuckled as he twirled the charm about on his watch chain, "and I'm proud of it. In 1922, on the eve of the Harvard-Yale gridiron battle, when the Crimson eleven was on pins and needles in New Haven, I grubbed with them and tried to cheer them up a bit. We had a great show...
...Cantor mentioned his tour abroad. "London--blah!--terribly expensive. A clerk shakes you out in the Savoy every morning to get your dough. In Paris you don't mind getting gypped, you expect it. I think gay Paree in toto reminds one of a woman trying to be naughty-naughty--it certainly succeeds...