Word: jessel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Billings '31, G. E. Carlson '30, C. H. Curtis '30, F. L. Dahney '30, A. L. Durkee '30, D. B. Edmonston '32, S. S. Ganick '30, Jacob Ginsburg '30, A. R. Goodman '32, Nathan Gordon '30, C. R. Graff '32, C. D. Harrington '32, J. J. Jessel '31, H. M. Jones '30, J. M. Keller '32, J. W. Kukas '30, B. I. Lachno '32, F. J. Mardulier '30, C. N. Mason, Jr. '32, M. B. Nunlist '30, B. R. Painter '30, R. B. Pierce '30, G. A. Reed '30, T. A. Rich '30, H. A. Sarkisian '30, C. M. Shigley...
...Legit." As to the legitimate stage, Mr. Fox has undoubtedly corralled a large number of its outstanding luminaries, including Actors Will Rogers, George Jessel, Clark and McCullough, Helen Chandler, and Authors Zoe Akins, Gilbert Emery, Cyril Hume, Owen Davis, George Middleton, Clare Kummer and many another. Prospective Fox talking features include Earl Derr Diggers' Behind That Curtain, Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's The Cock-Eyed World, Jerome K. Jerome's The Passing of the Third Floor Back, and the first of an annual revue series called Fox Movietone Follies...
Class of 1931: W. F. Billings, R. G. Haworth, R. C. Hooper, J. J. Jessel, C. M. Shigley, F. V. Weeks and Herber Wells...
Lucky Boy (Tiffany-Stahl). George Jessel's clear, vigorous singing of three theme songs better than the average prevents his first sound-picture from being as tiresome as you would expect a picture to be in which 1) a night-club entertainer, getting a telegram telling of his mother's illness, sings a song entitled "My Mother's Eyes"; 2) a girl is saved from embarrassment in a matter concerning a jewel not given her by her husband; 3) the entertainer makes a hit on Broadway. Better advised on technique than narrative, Tiffany-Stahl, a comparatively small...
There is very little acting, it being mostly a matter of getting lines off. For this reason the only people deserving of mention are Mr. Jessel upon whom most of the play depends and Clara Langsner as his mother, who does more than just go through the paces...