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Married. Al Jolson, 56, veteran "Mammy" singer; and Erie Galbraithe, 21, Southern-syllabled cinema starlet, ex-X-ray technician, remote kinswoman of General Claire Chennault; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Quartzsite, Ariz...
Looking like Al Jolson Digged out to understudy Alfred Lunt in The Guardsman, Commander John S. Young, onetime NBC commentator and later assistant naval attache at Moscow, modeled the regulation dress for officers assigned to the Soviet Union. To the Navy bridge coat has been added a collar of caracul. The headpiece, also of caracul, is patterned after the Cossack...
...Jolson, looking like "Bombo" in a Senegalese fez. Already a veteran of U.S.O. tours in Alaska, the Pacific, the Caribbean, he was now back from Africa and Sicily. He too plumped for newer films for the troops, reported: "They don't want Shakespeare. They're kids, they're babies-they want light stuff, but no legitimate...
...small way also the gayest. Never before have the folks who entertain the boys been so numerous or so notable; never have they worked so hard, traveled so far, risked so much. In the Middle East last week were Jack Benny, Larry Adler with his harmonica, Al Jolson with a harmonium; Ray Bolger was in the South Pacific, Judith Anderson in Hawaii. A while back Martha Raye went to the foxholes of Tunisia; and in New Guinea a show went on within earshot of the Japs. From the ranks of show business have sprung heroes and even martyrs...
...Personally," said Edgar Bergen, "I never thought entertainment so damn important, but I changed my mind after we toured the Army posts in Alaska." Like Al Jolson before him, he declared the boys up there had taken the zest out of him for entertaining civilians. Last week they were backed up by Bob Hope, the hardest-traveling Army-camp trooper of them all. The Aleutian circuit, he declared, comprised the greatest audience in the world. Back home, both Bergen and Hope were geysers of zestful anecdote in proof of their claim...