Word: cantors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Special Performance For Cantor...
...performance tonight, while officially the first, was preceded by a special show early Saturday morning for the benefit of Eddie Cantor and several of his friends. Mr. Cantor, in an interview Saturday night before his farewell appearance, pronounced "Laugh It Off" to be the best non-professional production I've ever seen...
...Eddie Cantor maintains that a humorist needs a sympathetic audience before be will venture new tricks. Can this account for the even sameness of Irish spirit which pervades the magazine? Certainly there is no boldness there, and even the Irish jokes have been diluted with un-Irish college humor, Lampoon variety, which seems quite out of place against the dull emerald background. The whole presents the appearance of a catalogue of sure-fire "Pat and Mikes" for the ten-twenty-thirty vaudeville performance...
...female limbs rapidly manipulated to music. Occasionally William Howard, comedian of the monocle school, advances to the footlights in order to lure back those holders of seats who have begun to make determined, surreptitious exits on all fours up the centre aisle. He imitates Harry Lauder, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor; he sings, with extraordinary results, a philosophic anthem entitled Let It Rain; he surmises that a talkative lady "must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle"; when confronted by a man who professes to have sprung from a long line of peers, he says: "And I've leaped from...
Dramatic critics also aroused Mr. Cantor's satire because of the unfairness which they frequently show toward plays. He closed by an outline of his career interspersed with much good advice for youthful aspirants to the drama, and drew great applause by an offer to return at some future date to give a song recital accompanied by his orchestra...