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...Beaumont '33, J. H. Braddock '35, V. S. Borst '35, Jules Bricken '35, George Cantor '35, W. D. Cotton, Jr. '35, D. A. Crafts '35, C. B. Currior '32, C. L. Dyer '34, R. G. Durham '35, N. R. French '35, H. F. Gillette '35, A. B. Gardner '33, R. A. Gardner '33, Sidney Gleason, 2nd, '35, Albert Raberstroh '35, E. S. Holden '33, R. W. Keleher '34, P. B. Kenyon '35, F. W. Knowlton, Jr. '35, A. C. Koch '34, G. W. V. Laise '35, C. W. Lanning, Jr. 35, W. H. Lehr '34, Sidney Levin...
Palmy Days (United Artists). Eddie Cantor belongs to the school of clowns whose humor derives from ineffectuality; a certain eccentric excitability makes him sometimes hilariously funny. His gaiety is without grace; it lacks the thin, almost horrible insanity of the Marx Brothers and it is seldom frankly pathetic, like Chaplin's. He is a culprit from a comic strip and no one would be surprised if, when something hit him on the head, it gave the sound of "plop" or "zowie...
...Palmy Days (produced by Samuel Goldwyn) is in musicomedy form though not in technicolor. The setting is a baking factory with a gymnasium on the roof. Here the comely girls who work in the factory are seen going through body-building exercises which they do not seem to need. Cantor, stooge for a fortune teller who has hoodwinked the factory owner, takes charge of the plant as efficiency expert. He proves his efficiency by showing the owner how to make a funny noise, by putting on a floorshow at the bakery's lunch room, in which he wears blackface...
...home he began writing plays and song lyrics. He wrote the lyrics for the late great Enrico Caruso's "Dreams of Long Ago." Then Oliver Morosco called him out to California to write the music and lyrics for the oldtime hit So Long Letty. After that he wrote Eddie Cantor's first musical comedy, Canary Cottage. By the time the War came, Producer Carroll was made. He enlisted as a private in the air service, was commissioned, made a pilot. He was the first man to land an airplane in Manhattan's Central Park...
...Jazz Singer Al Jolson, son of a cantor, received his early training in rhythmic, highly-colored Chassidic chants. † Last week Dr. Holmes listed the "ten greatest women of today," as follows: Jane Addams, "greatest among modern women"; Theosophist Annie Besant; Catherine Breshkovsky, "Grandmother of the Russian Revolution"; Scientist Mme Marie Curie; Anarchist Emma Goldman; Helen Keller, "most perfectly triumphant of women"; Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay; Mme Sarojini Naidu, "first among Indian women"; Margaret Sanger, "indomitable advocate of birth control"; Authoress Sigrid Undset...