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...stars but talented performers, good music and an uproariously funny scene in a girl's locker room, adorned with chorus girls in little enough underclothing. Undress is also the basis for a chaste pageant in Ziegfeld's "Whoopee", which has good music as well and the antics of Eddie Cantor. "Spring Is Here" initiating Glenn Hunter into musical comedy is for connoisseurs the brightest and most engaging of this type of attraction though "Hold Everything", an early season offering of Aarons and Freedley is much more a hit by virtue of the much-played air, "Cream in Your Coffee...
...sometimes said that, what with all the beard, gestures, famed lines and ancient prejudices that cluster about Shylock, the part is an iron-clad one; and that. since the play is either tragedy or comedy depending on the audience, it might be done as well by Eddie Cantor as by a Great Actor. However true such flippancies may be about the type-part of Shylock, they are certainly untrue of the play's great character-part, Portia. And the Arliss tour was memorable for its introduction of the youngest Portia, and one of the best, on record...
Whoopee. "Here is another of Mr. Ziegfeld's sumptuous durbars, a large and glittering ceremonial with Mr. Cantor at the comic centre of its parades. . . . The celebration earns the right to be called magnificent. ... He (Florenz Ziegfeld) employs the expensive Eddie Cantor . . . the prodigal Mr. Urban. ... He inspires the lazy silkworms to weave new and fabulous fabrics. . . ."-Percy Hammond in the Herald Tribune...
With these perfervid paeans the drama-reviewers of Manhattan let it be known that they had caught Whoopee, a cute little musical show, starring Eddie Cantor and exposing to view large portions of Gladys Glad, Olive Brady, and the like...
...Then word comes that Sonny Boy is dying in a Manhattan hospital. Here is the opportunity for the "Laugh, Clown. Laugh'' pishtish which was ignored in The Jazz Singer, when instead of going on with the show, Jolson went to synagog, substituted for his father, the dying cantor. With his son dead in the hospital, Al takes his turn behind the footlights, sings "Sonny...