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...Eddie Cantor has turned up some strange talent on his radio shows, but none is much worse than little Bobby Breen, his romantic singing youngster. Filmed in a horse-and-buggy setting in the last part of the 19th century, the film "Rainbow on the River" has all the worst features of that over-romantic age. It is so bad that during the showing everyone laughed where they should have cried, and the curtain was drawn to the tune of a chorus of hisses...

Author: By C. F., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 3/19/1937 | See Source »

Freshman debaters will meet Exeter tonight in their first contest this season in the upper common room of the Union at 7:15 o'clock. Arthur Cantor and Raymond J. Harris will uphold the negative of the question: "Resolved, That the manufacture of munitions of war should be a government monopoly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLING DEBATERS TO MEET EXETER TONIGHT | 2/24/1937 | See Source »

Prettily dimpled, with a mature lyric soprano voice that made her a sensation on the radio when she sang on Eddie Cantor's hour this autumn, Edna May Durbin was born in Winnipeg, brought up in Los Angeles where her father is a broker. She started taking singing lessons at 11. Last year her voice caught the ear of Hollywood Agent-Manager Jack Sherrill who put her under contract, got her a test with M-G-M for a picture that was never made. Her possibilities impressed Associate Producer Rufus LeMaire. When he joined Universal, he persuaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Eddie, who almost started a Third Party a few years ago with his "We Want Cantor" movement, was asked what he would do if he were President, not of the United States, but of Harvard. The banjo-eyed comedian turned around and said, "Why, I assure you, I'd do the same thing that your president is doing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cantor Entertains Business School As He Plugs For Radio As Life Career | 12/2/1936 | See Source »

...Cantor's innumerable operations have become almost a classic in Broadway prattle, and while Frenchy, his valet rubbed him down, many of the incisions, including the famous one with the zipper, could be seen. The star was resting between shows, but his flow of speech was unhalting. Audiences, actors, his own family, stage personalities--all were discussed by the comedian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cantor Entertains Business School As He Plugs For Radio As Life Career | 12/2/1936 | See Source »

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