Word: cantors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eddie Cantor's $5,000 scholarship competition, the subject of which is an essay question: "How Can America Stay Out Of War", is arousing much interest and comment in colleges and universities, especially through the Middle West...
Through the first two-thirds of the picture, Eddie Cantor, as Eddie Pink, a timid amusement-park manager embroiled with slot-machine racketeers, gives a fair imitation of Chaplin's famed characterization of a peewee battling gaily against overwhelming destiny. The last third of the picture is a chase in the classic Keystone tradition, starting when the racketeers, dressed in policemen's uniforms, pursue Eddie Pink around a roller coaster, and ending when Eddie and his Greek bodyguard (Parkya-karkus) find themselves trapped in a captive balloon. Eddie escapes by falling into an acrobats...
What makes Strike Me Pink slightly superior to its more recent predecessors in the series of pictures made by Cantor and Goldwyn is not so much the elaborate production numbers, in which the Goldwyn Girls function as decoratively as usual, but the activities of an animated young woman named Ethel Merman. Long familiar to Manhattan stage audiences, Ethel Merman's previous cinema appearances have been trifling and unimpressive. In Strike Me Pink, cast as a cabaret entertainer who nearly demolishes Eddie Pink's romance with a wholesome blonde (Sally Eilers), she comes into her own, sings all three...
This scholarship competition has no commercial affiliation, being entirely a personal matter with Cantor...
...competition will close on Saturday, February 22, and the award will be announced on Sunday, April 5. All letters should be mailed to Eddie Cantor, General Postoffice, Box 99, New York City...