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...Harlem Cabaret, where Othello, Emperor Jones, Al Jolson and other famed characters take part...
...more female limbs rapidly manipulated to music. Occasionally William Howard, comedian of the monocle school, advances to the footlights in order to lure back those holders of seats who have begun to make determined, surreptitious exits on all fours up the centre aisle. He imitates Harry Lauder, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor; he sings, with extraordinary results, a philosophic anthem entitled Let It Rain; he surmises that a talkative lady "must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle"; when confronted by a man who professes to have sprung from a long line of peers, he says: "And I've leaped from...
...established now that Al Jolson is the most valuable entertainer in the world. It is established that he, more than any living man or woman, can summon the audience to the palm of his white-gloved hand and hold it there. To his enemies-and he has a few-these statements will seem absurd. Survey of the reception he received in Big Boy guarantees them none the less...
...piece is a departure from the Jolson custom in that it has a plot. The comedian portrays the character of a darkey jockey who rides a colt named Big Boy and wins the last-act race. This framework displays no sensational originality. It is shrewdly made to carry the star's efforts, always feeding them and taking little for itself. The company is large and generally competent. Yet, it is upon the magnificent vitality, the bright and sometimes bawdy wit, the shift to a swift flash of pathos, the surpassing magnetism of Mr. Jolson that the show depends...
...wealthy U. S. hostesses, arranged entertainments for her. On her first night in town, there was an informal dinner in her suite?the guests including Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, Princess Cantacuzene-Speransky, Mrs. Richard Mortimer, Mrs. Henry H. Rogers. After dinner, the party went to the Jolson Theatre?minus Mrs. Vanderbilt, who rushed off, apologizing. Later, the Duchess beamed at a school of wriggling debutantes at the Colony Club. The Colonial Dames of America gave a party for her in a Park Avenue Hotel. The engagement pad of her visit recorded leading hostess in New York, Philadelphia...