Word: cantors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jazz Singer. Two seasons ago Manhattan and other cities witnessed approvingly the theatrical tale of a Jewish boy who wanted to go on the stage instead of into his church. His orthodox old father fumed gently, having trained him for a cantor. But circumstance and the boy's yearning for the footlights made him in the end a singer of jazz for the world that lives at night. George Jessel, a jazz singer from revue and vaudeville, played the part and made his name as a straight actor. But in making the picture Mr. Jessel was passed over...
Special Delivery. Eddie Cantor's art is a matter of sustaining punches in the eye, somersaults down elevator shafts, kicks, with perfectly immobile countenance. All this he does and little more in the course of a series of gags illustrating what can happen to a sublimely stupid letter carrier whose flashes of shrewdness are funny when unexpected...
...robin than see him in Shakespearian roles. No tragedy, however inspiring, could afford Mr. Jolson a legitimate opportunity to bellow for his Mammy. When one wants to see a faithful portrayal of the real negro there is Paul Robeson. But Al Jolson, in spite of Eddie Cantor's admirable attempts, is absolutely unique. And now he threatens to reform...
...Boots (Eddie Cantor). In Eddie Cantor's defection, the stage loses more than the cinema gains, the difference being written on the deposit side of Mr. Cantor's check book in round numbers. As for the picture itself, the plot concerns a certain Kid Boots who is invited to tarry awhile in the country club environs because he chanced on a scene bearing upon an important divorce case. Questions...
...funny is Mr. Cantor as a cinema comedian...