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Broadway Through a Keyhole (Twentieth Century) was the cause of last summer's most widely publicized Hollywood brawl. Gossip that incidents in the picture resembled incidents in the career of Dancer Ruby Keeler caused Miss Keeler's husband, Mammy Singer Al Jolson, to punch Colyumist Walter Winchell, who suggested the story to Producer Darryl Zanuck (TIME, July 31). Broadway Through a Keyhole shows Crooner Jolson's grounds for fisticuffs were inadequate. The heroine of the picture (Constance Cummings) works at a night club run by a harridan named Tex Kaley (Texas Guinan). Ruby Keeler was once...
...Jack Pearl will go on with Lucky Strike cigarets, Amos 'n' Andy with Pepsodent toothpaste, Rudy Vallee with Flelschmann's Yeast. Jack Benny this year performs for Chevrolet Motor Co., Burns & Allen and Guy Lombardo for White Owl Cigars, Bing Crosby for Woodbury Soap, Al Jolson and Paul Whiteman for Kraft-Phenix Cheese...
...bursting with marchers waiting their turn in line. While they waited many of them visited speakeasies, got tiddledy. There were a quarter-million of them: 20,000 dressmakers, 10,000 brokers & bankers and their clerks, 1,000 barbers, 35,000 city employes, 6,000 cinema workers led by Al Jolson, 5,000 oil workers led by Walter Teagle, metal workers, hatters, florists, waitresses, soda jerkers. Every guild, every trade and calling was on hand to honor the Blue Eagle. that hopeful bird with lightning in his claw...
Three months ago all unbeknownst to themselves three little pigs turned song-pluggers. Their behavior was revolutionary so far as the song industry was concerned. Song-plugging had been left before to such shrewd and experienced performers as Rudy Vallée, Al Jolson, Helen Morgan. The three little pigs were neither shrewd nor experienced. They were pink and new-looking with pudgy behinds and ridiculous tails. Two were so imprudent that they built their houses of straws and sticks, fiddled and danced and tootled on the flute all day, mocking their serious pig-brother who built a brick house...
Sued. Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson), mammy-singer; by Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist; for $500,000, the extent to which Colyumist Winchell said he was damaged when he was struck and felled last month in Hollywood's Legion Stadium by Singer Yoelson, disturbed over reports that Winchell's new scenario (Broadway Through a Keyhole) was discreditable to his wife, Ruby Keeler (TIME, July...