Word: jolsonlis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Nathan Burkan, 56, Rumanian-born expert on copyright and contract law; of acute indigestion; in Great Neck, L. I. Among his clients were Composer Victor Herbert, the late Florenz Ziegfeld, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Constance Bennett, Ina Claire, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt...
Near Deadwood, S. Dak. the Black Hills Exploration Co. prepared to prospect for gold with the world's largest diamond drill. The company's president: Sid Grauman, owner of Hollywood's famed Chinese Theatre. Vice president: Cinemactor Al Jolson...
...most popular sandwiches at Bob Berger's Restaurant in Boston is not the Rudy Vallee, nor the Al Jolson, the Kate Smith, nor the Bing Crosby, but the Wilford Cook Saeger--Bursar of this University...
...Singing Kid" Al Jolson gives another singularly uninteresting performance. Jolson's line is extremely limited and for this reviewer, at least, his appeal has utterly worn out. He is a past master at the art of letting his supporting cast take the picture out from under his nose, as Edward Everett Horton, the Yacht Club Boys, and most of all, Cab Calloway and his band, do in this picture. If the Cab and his band had had more of a part the whole thing might have been worth seeing. As it is he appears only a few short times...
Unfortunately, even a galaxy of new talent plus Actress Keeler's husband, Al Jolson, cannot entirely disguise the fact that, aside from its personnel. The Singing Kid sticks with alarming fidelity to the tradition of its predecessors. Its story runs to formula. A song & dance man (Jolson) loses girl, money, voice, regains the latter two under the impetus of fresh romance. Production numbers, with the exception of one in which the Yacht Club Boys heckle Jolson for his Mammy songs, have a warmed-over air. As entertainment, it boils down to a simple question of taste: Is Jolson...