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...oldster, dozing over last week's show, must have dreamed back to the great days of the New Amsterdam Theater, where the late, great Florenz Ziegfeld made summer official with a new Follies. Perhaps memory winged back to the Follies of 1917, with W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Fanny Brice, Bert Williams, Walter Catlett, Peggy Hopkins (later Joyce) in the cast. Or to the Follies of 1919, with a cast hardly less impressive, and such tunes as Tulip Time, Mandy, and the nonpareil Bert Williams' You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake...
Schorr first appeared as Wotan when he was 23, in the provincial opera house in Graz, Austria. Son of a well-to-do Jewish cantor, he grew up in Vienna, where he studied law, earned his singing lessons by tutoring in Latin and Greek. His career really began to move in 1923, when he was stranded in the U.S. with a troupe of Wagnerian barnstormers. The managers failed to make good their $75,000 guarantee, but Schorr went on to the Metropolitan...
They also edit versions of 24 commercial radio shows for the troops. They cut out all advertising ballyhoo, delete painful absurdities, like Eddie Cantor's "Mad Russian," which might be fine fodder for Axis propagandists...
Distaff: Button-popping with pride was pop-eyed Eddie Cantor, sonless father of five; a daughter had popped up with bells on in show business. Off the family payroll, onto Manhattan station WNEW's as a staff announcer was 21-year-old Marilyn, happily no spittin' image...
...first big-league appearance Judy turned out to be a knowing, unmanageable gamin ("Shirley, watch my language!") who thought Eddie Cantor was a puppet ("Oh, he talks!") and distrusted his fiscal attitude ("Get the cash, get the cash!"). Says Cantor: "We're going to go on as though Charlie McCarthy didn't exist...