Word: hallelujah
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...University Theatre presents two very worth while pictures this week: Nancy Carroll and John Boles in "Child of Manhattan," and "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" with Al Jolson and Madge Evans. The first of these pictures is a witty, sophisticated story of life in the big city and points west. The lines in it are good with occasional touches of double meaning. The plot, while a trifle emotional, is not at all dripping; in fact in some touching scenes, where usual University audiences would laugh, there were moist eyes...
...Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" Al Jolson does some of his best work; to tell the truth, this is the only Jolson picture that the reviewer liked at all. Al, as mayor of Central Park, extols the virtues of the open air, while his friend, Frank Morgan, in the role of Mayor Hastings of New York, although converted to Bumper's care-free life of leisure, is tied down by official and private responsibilities. Complications on sue when June Marcher, Madge Evans in screen life, jumps off the bridge when Bastings unfortunately thinks that she is not faithful...
...Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (United Artists -Joseph Schenck) was written by Ben Hecht, adapted by Samuel Behrman. scored by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart. directed by Lewis Milestone and acted by, among others, Al Jolson...
Loew's State and Orphoum--"Hallelujah, I'm a Bum." AI Jolson returns to the movies but is not so hot in this...
...from two notes to the whole chromatic scale. Some songs come piecemeal from the classics, like "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" which is found in Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu. Others are scrambled together like "Yes, We Have No Bananas," which contains bits from Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, "My Bonnie," "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls," "Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party" and "An Old-Fashioned Garden." As Tune Detective, Dr. Spaeth sings, plays and analyzes snatches from current popular songs. Some 2,000 people, most of them men, write in weekly to ask questions, make suggestions...