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...Jackson, played by Al Jolson, is a great guy. He helps numerous chorus girls keep their jobs, he gives large sums of money to unknown gentlemen he meets in the streets, he loves little children, and he gives his fiancee an unlimited checking account...
Horton and Jenkins carry off the comedy honors; the Yacht Club Boys, our favorite interpreters of national affairs, are entitled to all the singing prizes, and Cab Calloway makes all the music. There isn't much left for Jolson to do except sink to his knees with a rapt expression. He's the same old Al, and still doesn't mind the gray skys, but we don't like it any better than...
...Daddy Judas brings him home," and "Al Jolson and Sonny Boy!" were among the more abusive comments of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. As Father & Son stiffly and swiftly withdrew, Scottish Laborite John McGovern roared after the Secretary of State for Colonies: "He's following his Dear Old Dad, though he doesn't know where he's going...
...published 38 different books and pamphlets; 5) put on many a radio art program; 6) established a cinema museum which is preserving for students such valued films as the first Mack Sennett custard pies, The Birth of a Nation, Sarah Bernhardt as Queen Elizabeth, the first sound picture (Al Jolson's Jazz Singer), Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire. Besides the donations from Miss Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller and others, the Museum acquired few months ago Surrealist Salvador Dali's famed canvas of the limp watches on the seashore, The Persistence of Memory (TIME...
Privately and publicly, Mildred Bailey, the Rocking Chair Lady, who used to sing flaming torches with Paul Whiteman, reverently remembers Hoagy for his Old Rocking Chair. When Al Jolson first went on the air, he relied heavily on Lazy Bones, and that was one of Hoagy's tunes...