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...stroke; in his Manhattan penthouse atop Sardi's 44th Street restaurant. In the partnership, Older Brother Sam was the producer and Middle Brother Lee the businessman; "J.J." touched both sides of the business, playing backer to Florenz Ziegfeld, producing more than 500 shows, and sending Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Marilyn Miller and Bert Lahr on their way to stardom. Until 1956, when the U.S. Government settled an antitrust suit, the Shuberts controlled half of all U.S. legitimate theaters; the business (24 theaters in Manhattan and four other cities) is still worth an estimated $50 million, and two days before...
...simply that he can do no wrong. His cheapskate, self-deceiving, inept, shrug-it-off, endearing and vainglorious public character has grown round him for decade after decade like layer after layer of cement, and he has long since become utterly indestructible. Many of his peer contemporaries-Eddie Cantor. Fred Allen, Ben Bernie-are either retired or dead; but Benny just keeps on standing there with that look, and warm, unraucous laughter ripples all over the room...
...bouquet of 50 lavender long-stems from someone in Rome who signed herself "Elizabeth." He sang an hour's worth of love songs (This Nearly Was Mine, It Never Entered My Mind), got a standing ovation from a crowd of 1,000, hugs and handshakes from Mentor Eddie Cantor, and then went off to celebrate, flanked by Mike Todd Jr., son of Liz's third husband, and blonde Actress Annette Cash, his current steady. Wrote Columnist Walter Winchell, on hand to cover the event: "He stopped the show colder than a faithless wife's heart." Never...
Indeed, he delights in remembering how atypical his early career was. "In my day, everyone was a child prodigy. They all had great teachers, and made debuts at the age of six." Eisenberg, on the other hand, although he was born into a musical family--his father was a cantor--did not start music lessons until he was nine. Even then it was the violin that he began to study. The reasons he recalls for changing to the 'cello are a mixture of pragmatism and romanticism: "There was only one violin, and I had to share it with my brother...
...appearances with a small opera company, a feat equivalent to a baseball player's joining the New York Yankees after a couple of weeks of sandlot ball. But Tucker had honed his voice as a member of his synagogue choir on the Lower East Side, later as a cantor (he still forgoes all performances to officiate at services during the fall High Holy Days and the spring Passover...