Word: jessel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just turned eighteen, Lois Andrews, pride of California's beauty contests, and wife of comedian George Jessel, turned up at the Crimson Network yesterday, on the second anniversary of her ejection from a Boston night club. At that time, the youthful singer-dancer was sixteen, but people thought she was at least twenty. That is everyone except the authorities, who looked at official records, instead of the more obvious facts in her favor...
High Kickers (book by George Jessel, Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby; music & lyrics by Kalmar & Ruby; produced by Alfred Bloomingdale) is a musicomedy attempt to bag the spirit of burlesque. The method is simple: the plot is all about a burlesque show. The joke-making is equally simple: always corny and always off-color. The casting problem could not have been hard: gams, old vaudevillians, Hot Mama Sophie Tucker and, to keep everything moving, Hellow-Mama George Jessel. The result is unfortunate: bearable in slivers, terrible in bulk...
Little George Jessel, with a couple of lively monologues, does what he can for the show. Big Sophie Tucker, with a lot of over-lively songs and an uncompleted striptease, does more than anyone wants. The girls and costumes are pretty, but the wit is much oftener rough than ready, and the songs and dancing are dull...
Born. To Comedian George Jessel, 43, and ex-Showgirl Lorrain Gourley ("Lois Andrew") Jessel, 17: a daughter, Jerilynn, 6 Ib. 12 oz.; in Hollywood...
Master of Ceremonies George Jessel announced a song: "You Can't Come Into My Parlor, Said the Networks to the Fly." Then radio men turned homeward, determined to get a Congressional investigation of FCC, but more than a little leery of what such an investigation might turn into. They saw no help from their onetime great friend, Franklin Roosevelt. When reporters had asked him to comment on the scrap he waved an airy hand, said there were more important things to think about. And the new week's news was worrisome: Congress suddenly got ready to give Trust...