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...Cantor: "He'll be in a box on Sunday and I'll be in a box on Monday...
...from Spain (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn). If you like Eddie Cantor you will probably like this picture in which, surrounded by prettier girls than usual, he performs thoroughly typical Cantor antics. Tricked into acting as chauffeur for a crew of bandits, he has to escape across the border into Mexico while rolling his popeyes, giving exaggerated gulps. To delude a detective he is forced to pose as a torero. No one who knows Cantor technique needs to be told what he forgets to wear into the arena: his trousers. The funniest part of The Kid from Spain is the chase...
...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...
...became a choir boy in a Manhattan Episcopal Church, quit when punished for puncturing the organ bellows with an alto's hatpin. He learned to tap dance. His mother persuaded her friend Ned Wayburn to get him a job in a Gus Edwards act (where famed Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Georgie. Price. Walter Winchell received their histrionic training). When Groucho was 14, he went to Denver to be boy soprano in a trio. Soon after he arrived his voice changed. He got a job driving a grocery wagon in Cripple Creek, Colo., saved enough for a ticket home...
...called hers "the most beautiful form in the world"), Yvonne Taylor ("she wore the most beautiful tights"), Mae Murray, Lilyan Tashman, Ina Claire, Billie Dove, Mary Hay, Nita Naldi, Marion Davies, Peggy Hopkins Joyce. He was responsible for the fame of Will Rogers, Bert Williams, William Claude Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jack Donahue...