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Jack Benny (born Benny Kubelsky) was winding up a smalltime career in vaudeville when bigtime Comedian Eddie Cantor (born Izzy Iskowitz) was taking vaudeville through new Cantortions on the air. This year Jell-O's Jack Benny nosed out Ventriloquist's Dummy Charlie McCarthy as No. 1 man of the air (TIME, Feb. 12). Cantor was not in radio at all, had had no air sponsor since last June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mothers and He Men | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...made a new picture-Forty Little Mothers (M.G.M.). So had Comedian Benny-Buck Benny Rides Again (Paramount). This coincidence was the more curious because both comedians' last pictures were no great shakes. Cantor's Ali Baba Goes to Town left 20th Century-Fox like a visit of the forty thieves. Benny's Man About Town suggested that some Benny fans would rather listen free to than pay to look at their hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mothers and He Men | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...wonder why I get mad when people ask me whether I am serious about my career? Do you think I'd be working like this if I was just having a good time, Why last spring in New York we played 45 shows a week with Eddie Cantor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ritz Roof Alters Cobina's Opinion | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

Nominations for the second Senior balloting were made by a committee headed by Edward C. K. Read '40, recently elected Class Odist, and including Arthur Cantor, John E. Crane, Paul Olum, Ernest J. Sargeant, Benjamin S. West, and H. Holton Wood, all Seniors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nominating Committee Announces Slate of 31 Seniors for Elections | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...Senior Nominating Committee is headed by Edward C. K. Read, with Arthur Cantor, John E. Crane, Paul Olum, Ernest J. Sargeant, B. Sheffield West, and H. Holton Wood, all Seniors, assisting him. For the Juniors Roger S. Schafer '41 has on his committee John M. London and Francis M. Simpson, Jr., both Juniors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nominations for Album and Senior Officers Made; Freshmen to Decide on Class Officers Tomorrow | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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