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Into the Hollywood Legion Stadium to see some boxing matches stepped jaunty, garrulous Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist for the New York Mirror. Up from his ringside seat jumped Mammy-Singer Al Jolson, whose big-eyed wife, Ruby Keeler, had started to whimper at the sight of Winchell. Smack went Jolson's fist and down went Winchell. Smack went Jolson's other fist and down went Wrinchell again. After other spectators, including a woman who wielded her sharp-heeled slipper, had driven Jolson off, word buzzed through the excited audience that Ruby Keeler was upset because Winchell...
...Jolson-My wife got sick when she saw Winchell. . . . That man's made a nervous wreck...
...Winchell-Jolson hit me once, and that was on the side of the neck. The guy who sent me down hit me from behind and I know who it was and who hired him to do it. . . . But it's all right. Besides being great publicity for me, it's good for Al, who needs it. . . . Al won't find anything to worry about in the picture. It makes the actor out a great guy. He's a chump if he doesn't play the lead in the piece. . . . I'll shake hands with...
...Jolson (leaving Hollywood "for the last time")-If I ever see that fellow again I'll let him have it. I'm still mad; good and sore, in fact...
...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...