Word: jerkers
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...movie theater with Walter Winchell; at eleven he was part of Gus Edwards' kid troupe; as an adolescent he teamed with Eddie Cantor, his lifelong friend and butt. A big laugh-getter in his early 20s, in his late 20s he proved an even bigger tear-jerker in The Jazz Singer. His biggest success since then came this season on Broadway in Show Time...
...familiar tear-jerker about the barroom piano thumper (Charles Laughton) who has written the great symphony, is finally given a chance to play it by a Toscanini-like maestro (Victor Francen...
...familiar tear-jerker about the class reunion where the class down-&-outer (Edward G. Robinson) pretends to be prospering, is unmasked, humiliated, then taken back into the fraternity and a Wall Street firm...
...Renaissance and Romantic painters of Europe, to whom he is often compared, he got entirely from U.S. museums and reproductions. He worked his way through Manhattan's Art Students League and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts taking jobs as a dishwasher, cook and soda jerker, kept on painting in his own way, modeled his methods not on the French Impressionists or the U.S. Realists, but upon Delacroix and Tintoretto...
Ellen Drew, onetime soda jerker, took off her mink coat and mixed a soda for photographers in a Manhattan drugstore...