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Hold On to Your Hats (music & lyrics by Burton Lane & E. Y. Harburg, produced by Al Jolson & George Hale). Al Jolson has an anxiety complex. He is afraid that audiences will not like him. Last week he was reassured. After a nine-year stay in Hollywood, where his light was dimmed by the glare of kliegs on more popular faces, he returned to Broadway in a burst of triumph, was prodigally welcomed by a first-night crowd undismayed by an $8.80 top. The vehicle that brought Jolson back to the boards was a rowdy, expansive, old-fashioned musicomedy, with...
...running commentary on sports of the day by George Carens of the Transcript, Fred Allen, Parkyarkarkas, Al Jolson and others brought to the microphone through the impersonations of Ray Guild '43, and five minutes of song by the female attraction, Helen Carrol, helped keep the show moving throughout the better part of three hours' entertainment
...Stephen Foster. Foster, while drinking himself to death, turned out most of the best U. S. folk songs. In pictures about composers a vacant look, head noddings and rhythmic hand flourishes denote musical inspiration. With these appropriate symptoms Don Ameche, as Stephen Foster, is shown conceiving his songs. Al Jolson (Christy the minstrel man) sings them, manages to mar their simplicity with a few flourishes...
Divorced. Ethel Hilder (Ruby) Keeler, 30, ex-dancer, cinemactress, from Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson), 51, mammy singer, cinemactor; in Los Angeles...
...Arrowhead is financed largely with cinema money. Chief Stockholders Schenck and Paley sold $1,000,000 of the corporation debentures, the 10,000 shares of common stock to Hollywoodians. Among the stockholders are Constance Bennett (one of the smartest of cinema's businesswomen), Claudette Colbert, Darryl Zanuck, Al Jolson, Paley & friends are planning to sell $500,000 more of common stock issue to finish the job of making Arrowhead a glittering combination of Carlsbad and Sun Valley...