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...Unpaid Cantor...
...collect back taxes from Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, was now abandoning criminal prosecution in income tax cases, would henceforth stick to civil action. ¶ Of all the many millionaires who lost fortunes in the 1929 stockmarket crash none has been more eager to admit it than Funnyman Eddie Cantor. In 20 days he lost the $2,000,000 that it had taken him 20 years to save. Recouping in part by sales of 'his book Caught Short, he described himself as ''not in the market but under it.'' Eddie Cantor's steepest losses were...
...current revival of cinemas with music, Warner Brothers, who claim that they started the cycle with 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933, favor backstage romances, staged with super-Ziegfeldian extravagance. Samuel Goldwyn surrounds Eddie Cantor with girls and animals. Universal, sceptical of the new vogue, was last week completing a cheap ($100,000) cinemusicomedy, partly financed by two Manhattan shoestring producers and produced at Paramount's Long Island lot, which has been disused for two years...
Died. Josef Rosenblatt, 51, world famed synagog cantor and concert singer; of a heart attack after completing a film for the American-Palestine Fox Film Co.; in Jerusalem. An orthodox Jew, he would not remove his vast beard even when offered $3,000 a night to sing in La Juive for the Chicago Opera Company...
...thrillers ("I want a blood-curdling murder," wrote one) while the mothers plumped for news and historical broadcasts. Only a few children approved those marked "Excellent" by the mothers: Roses and Drums, Current Events, Today's News, Great Moments in History, MARCH OF TIME. Only in Comedian Eddie Cantor did the two viewpoints meet. Rated "Good" by the mothers, he was the children's first choice. Next in popularity came Little Orphan Annie, who advertises Ovaltine and provides beetleware Orphan Annie Mugs to those who send in seals from Ovaltine cans. The Scarsdale mothers called her "Very Poor...