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...opening night of The Singing Fool Broadwayfarers buzzed with the rumor that Jolson would wed Ruby Keeler.* This Jolson vehemently denied. Two days later Jolson gave the little girl his hand at Port Chester. N. Y., metropolitan Gretna Green. It was Jolson's third wedding, Ruby Keeler's first...
...Singing Fool. Al Jolson, Robert Charles Benchley. George Bernard Shaw are the best the sonucinema has offered so far. This is no happy commentary upon 1) cinemactors; 2) sonucinema. Neither Songster Jolson, Funnyman Benchley...
...cinemactor, yet no cinemactor, no cinemactress has so ably combined appearance with utterance as have Jolson, Benchley, Shaw. Jolson, of course, is the lone member of the trio who has gone to any film length and observers noted that neither of his two operas (The Jazz Singer, The. Singing Fool) has been all-talk. Both have been all-sound. If Jolson, whose singing can lift a drooping piece, has not been permitted to do an all-talk piece, it is obvious that a lesser player, unable to break into song, must falter when the piece itself falters...
...Singing Fool Jolson is Al Stone, a singing waiter at an inferior nightclub, who is daft over a revue-girl (Josephine Dunn). He writes a song, sings it to the revue-girl, is heard by one Marcus (Edward Martindel), a theatrical shogun. Shogun Marcus, impressed, wants Al to write more songs, gives Molly, the revue-girl, a break. Four years later Al & Molly are Broadway pets, but Al loses Molly, who becomes infatuated with John Perry (Reed Howes). There is a three-year-old child called Sonny Boy (David Lee), who escapes artificiality so completely that a hypersensitive cinemaddict feels...
...piece is nice entertainment, yet all encomia of The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool must be leavened by one fact, in justice to cinemactors, legitimactors: to play a part is one thing, to play a part which has been written around an actor's career is something else again...