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Perceiving Funnyman Rogers' success, Funnyman Eddie Cantor, also of the Follies, and Publisher William Randolph Hearst, last week made known that Cantor would comment daily on the news through Bell Syndicate. To show how he could newscrack, Funnyman Cantor issued the following...
Colonial--"Whoopee", with Eddie Cantor. Whoopee...
...stage of Manhattan's New Amsterdam Theatre which a few weeks ago held pop-eyed Eddie Cantor and the spangled chorus girls of Whoopee, stood portly President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University. A play was about to begin; he asked the audience to remain seated after the performance. When the curtain rose, a slender, honev-haired girl was discovered at the mercy of international swindlers who coveted a package of letters in her possession. But the swindlers were not to prevail, for soon an amazingly lean, dignified, taciturn gentleman appeared to help the girl. He was Sherlock Holmes...
...Babson who, after a record of much unsuccessful seering, publicly forecast the decline, although instead of his break of "60-80 points," the industrial average dropped 183 (according to Prof. Irving Fisher's index of 50 most active industrials). Quickly capitalized was Seer Babson's accuracy, as were Wag Cantor's losses. Newsstands displayed for $3 a pamphlet giving Babsonic market recommendations. A long silent sage, John Moody, late last week predicted the break was over, that 1930 would provide a slow rising market with small volume, easy money. A broken sage was Charles Amos Dice, famed market student...
Actor Eddie (Whoopee) Cantor confessed that when he had heard of Mr. Rosenwald's offer to protect his employes' accounts, he had wired for a job as office boy. The confession was in Caught Short, humorous story of his market troubles...