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Thank Your Lucky Stars, with Bogart, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, at 8 p.n.: and Go Into Your Dance, with Helen Morgan, Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson, at 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday...
Sadly, the book does not reflect the enormous contribution that foreigners have made to the development of music. Only two of the 36 songs--"Frere Jacques" and "Au Clair de la Lune"--were not written by Americans. The book, for example, includes the work of Al Jolson ("California Here I Come") but ignores that of Wolfgang Mozart ("Symphony No. 39 in E flat," "The Marriage of Figaro"). Nowhere in the songbook is the music of Ludwig van Beethoven ("The Fifth Symphony," "Missa Solemnis"), another talented foreigner. In fairness to editor Michael Scheff, it must be noted that Beethoven disliked...
...After Al Jolson got through with it, Gershwin could stop plugging other people's songs. His own style-spirited, harmonically rich, melodically simple but full of pungent surprises-was crystalized in a string of subsequent hit songs (Somebody Loves Me, Stairway to Paradise, The Man I Love) and Broadway musicals (Lady, Be Good!, Strike Up the Band, Funny Face, Girl Crazy, Of Thee I Sing). By his late 20s, when Gershwin sought (unsuccessfully) to take some composing lessons from Maurice Ravel, the popular question was why he would want to be an imitation Ravel when he was already...
...good son of a bitch," George Jessel said about Singer Al Jolson, who died in 1950, "but he was the greatest entertainer I've ever seen." According to a new biography by Freelance Michael Freedland, the greatest encore of Jolson's career was his tours for the U.S.O. during World...
...urgent phone call from Mamie Eisenhower, who dictated a note to be delivered to her husband: "Dear Ike: Al will give you this note and give you a sweet kiss from me-and also a swift kick, because you haven't written for so long." Jolson delivered the message to General Eisenhower, commander in chief of the Allied Forces in North Africa. "Well," said Ike, "when you get back home, give Mrs. Eisenhower back that kiss. As for the other ..." Ike bent over, lifted the flap of his jacket and told Jolson to carry out his wife...