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...Eminence, George William Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago: "The very rare instance when a Catholic prelate 'boosts' a cinema show happened last week, when the pictures of last summer's Eucharistic Congress at Chicago were shown under my patronage at the Jolson Theatre, Manhattan. Of the show, His Eminence, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of New York said: 'The events of the Congress itself naturally are lived over again in a way to renew the spiritual fervor of our Catholic people and to appeal once more to our non-Catholic brethren whose sympathetic and reverend interest will never...
Shubert--Al Jolson in "Big Boy"--8.15 o'clock. The Papa of the Mama songs...
Shubert--Al Jolson in "Big Boy" 8.15 o'clock...
Vitaphone and The Better 'Ole (Syd Chaplin). While Al Jolson mouths "Mammy, Mammy" on the screen, the audience hears Al Jolson throat "Mammy, Mammy" out of what sounds like a loud radio. It is the Vitaphone, now well on its way to fame as purveyor of "canned" music to theatres too small to afford orchestras. After the same slightly harsh, but perfectly synchronized reproduction of Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization...
Shubert--Al Jolson in "Big Boy"--8.15 o'clock...