Word: cantors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poor Richard Club in Philadelphia, celebrating the 228th birthday of Benjamin Franklin, President Roosevelt sent a message praising his namesake's sanity. The club thereupon awarded its annual Poor Richard Achievement Medal, in absentia, to Walt Disney on whose behalf it was accepted by Eddie Cantor...
...biggest money making stars of 1932-33," picked by 12,000 exhibitors in Motion Picture Herald's annual poll: Marie Dressier, Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Eddie Cantor, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Mae West, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford...
...November 1929 the Winchell column in the New York tabloid Daily Mirror read: "If I were king I would throttle the swift talker who got me to consent to serve on the board of governors for the planned Fleetwood Beach Club at Long Beach. N. Y., just because Eddie Cantor. George Jessel, Bugs Baer. Mark Hellinger and others were so gullible. The enterprise, it appears, is being worked along the lines of another 'racket,' to which I am opposed and I hope others won't invest in the damb thing because our names are being prostituted...
...this squib, the club promotion collapsed, and the promoters sued Winchell and the Mirror for $250,000. The promoters charged that Winchell's outburst was the result of malice because they had been obliged to remove his name from the directors' list in order to persuade Eddie Cantor to remain. That, Winchell vehemently denied. He said he had resigned because he believed the scheme dishonest; that he printed his attack for the same reason. At the trial in a Manhattan court last fortnight. Funnyman Cantor testified for Winchell. Stormed Winchell on the stand: "I said...
Three months ago, as chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard signed a petition to President Roosevelt asking that the cinema code include restrictions on block booking. President Roosevelt signed the code without such restrictions and appointed Dr. Lowell. Eddie Cantor and Marie Dressier as Government representatives to the Code Authority. Last week Dr. Lowell refused the appointment. His reasons, explained in letters to General Johnson, showed a remarkably sound knowledge of the cinema industry...