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...this day courtiers at the Hague recall the Queen Mother's words of blistering scorn when Crown Princess Juliana, precocious at 15, became innocently infatuated with a 30 year old Jewish widower, Gabriel Alara, a sweet-voiced, black-eyed cantor in an Amsterdam synagog (TIME, Dec. 8, 1923.) But such is the winsomeness of Princess Juliana that, in her presence, all is soon forgiven...
Vaudeville has for a long time included among it mass of mongrel terms the phrase, "Three a day". And to both actor and audience it means that labor of love which sends the embryonic Eddie Cantor out in front for fifteen minutes three successive times between luncheon and the final visit to his particular cafeteria for coffee, a Western, and the "Billboard". To the faculty and student body of Harvard College it probably means little or nothing. The three a week is alone vital to them...
...stage it is the same way. The highest paid actors are not the Barry-mores or the Otis Skinners. The five highest paid actors in American are Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Fred Stone, and Ed Wynn--all comedians...
Pretty Ladies. Another bit of accuracy is here dealt round on the general subject of Broadway. The Follies, with Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, Ann Pennington, Gallagher and Shean, and even Mr. Ziegfeld adequately included, is the subject. It seems that the low-comedy actress had never had a lover. It was the trap drummer that finally succumbed. They were very happy until the luxurious prima donna leered her way into their lives. Then a strange ending, so swift and so sincere as to be almost out of place...
...witness the marriage of one Ann Shapiro to one Harry Levy. At 6 p. m., the bride uttered a scream. She had forgotten the marriage license. A wedding guest, dispatched for it, was stopped by a traffic policeman. At 3 p. m., the limp guests stood up, rejoicing that Cantor J. Briah had begun the ceremony. Came a stern, interrupting voice-that of the cantor of the synagog, one A. Gartenhaus. He forbade the function to proceed unless he conducted it. The haggard wedding guests, frenzied at the threat of another delay, conducted Cantor Gartenhaus to the basement, there throttled...