Word: cantors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unseen and unseeing audience of National Broadcasting Co. was not let in on the fun at first. Loth to help puff a competitor's stunt, NBC banned all mention of the brother-hunt when Burns & Allen were invited as guests of Chase & Sanborn's Eddie Cantor. Fleischmann's Yeast's Rudy Vallee. Crooner Vallee was actually switched off the air when he inadvertently referred to it. But since Eddie Cantor threatened to work in a reference in such a way that NBC would have to switch station announcements, NBC's protests have gone pretty much...
...Eddie Cantor Chase & Sanborn Coffee...
...preponderantly musical but now, according to Variety's survey, comedians hold the first six places. Different parts of the country have different favorites. The South still prefers Amos 'n' Andy who used to be national favorites. The Northwest prefers the German lingo of Jack Pearl. Eddie Cantor leads in New England and the Middle West. Ed Wynn won in Chicago...
Cinema and stage folk run to large, expensive Christmas cards, with heavy silver paper and fancy typography. Alla Nazimova sends her signature, in red ink. Lily Pons puts a picture of herself in a folder of heavy silver paper, wrapped in cellophane. Eddie Cantor caricatures his large eyes, surrounded by holly wreaths. Helen Morgan sits on a piano, weeping and singing. George Gershwin caricatures his profile. Percy Crosby shows his "Skippy" kneeling by his bed, saying: "Dear God, it's funny how ya get to thinkin' of the old pals on Christmas...
...make his cinema comedies resemble in opulence the musical shows of the late Florenz Ziegfeld. This picture cost about $1,400,000. A chorus which is probably the handsomest ever assembled for the cinema appears twice: in the dormitory of a girls' school, then in a Mexican cabaret where Cantor hides under a table and puts on black face with the cork from a champagne bottle...