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...their places for the long winter evenings: Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy. The Philharmonic had arranged to broadcast on tour; a hallowed hush awaited Arturo Toscanini next week in NBC's starchy Studio 8H. Rudy Vallée, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson were major absentees. There was no newcomer with the mature charm of 1938's prize find, Information Please, but radio 1939 turned up an idea that threatens to sweep the nation like Bingo if the antigambling goblins don't get it first...
...acted with Al Jolson, led a band, served as the Ward McAllister of Harlem and bills himself on his calling card as the greatest pianist on earth, obviously the name Willie Smith is an insufficient handle. Accordingly, Harlem's Willie Smith calls himself The Lion*and habitually refers to himself in the third person. His entrance into a Harlem hotspot is nothing short of imperial. "The Lion is here," is his simple greeting, and it gets plenty of respectful attention. For Willie may not be the greatest piano player on earth, but he is hard to beat between 110th...
...children are given thorough physical and mental tests before they are sent to homes for trial periods before legal adoption. Few children are ever returned to agencies. Religious ties are respected, and often children of mixed blood are supplied upon request. Four-year-old Al Jolson Jr. is half-Irish, half-Jewish, to match his foster mother and father...
Rose of Washington Square (Twentieth Century-Fox) is prefaced by the customary assurance that any resemblance to fact is purely "coincidental." This legal formula has never rung more hollowly. The picture chronicles the rise of Mammy-Singer Al Jolson, renamed Ted Cotter and played by Al Jolson. Ted's good friend in the picture is one Rose Sargent (Alice Faye), a Ziegfeld star whose worthless husband (Tyrone Power) besmirches her name by fleeing justice after he becomes involved in a bond scandal. Rose vows her loyalty and, by sobbing out from the Ziegfeld stage the song My Man, persuades...
Inferior as melodrama, Rose of Washington Square is tops as a vehicle for displaying the talents of two superlative song pluggers. Plugger Jolson, still leather-lunged at 52, blacks his face and shouts