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Today the process of adoption is no secret. In every State numerous orphan asylums, private or State agencies have adoption services. Most famed haven is The Cradle at Evanston, Ill., which has sent children to Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, George Burns and Grade Allen, Miriam Hopkins, Joe E. Brown...
...allergic to Negro entertainment as Alvin R. Schwab [TIME, March 20] should move from Washington to the North Bay country. He must break out in hives when he hears Al Jolson sing Mammy...
...pair of bloodhounds on a recent Hobby Lobby show bayed like banshees during rehearsals, then closed up like mummies when the program went on the air. A CBS announcer a few Sundays back inadvertently attributed the Bab Ballads to Shakespeare. Three years ago Al Jolson ad libbed something about a Pennsylvania hotel that may cost NBC $15,000. If Radio Engineer James Arthur Miller had his way, embarrassing and costly mishaps like these would not happen on the radio...
Eighteen-year-old Ben Freedman, son of radio's late No. 1 Gagman David Freedman† left for Hollywood to write Al Jolson's radio scripts, took with him his father's private file of 40,000 jokes...
...Some of his former customers: Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Fannie Brice, Burns & Allen, Jack Benny...