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...counts as well spent the $108,000 paid him since June. Prince Albert, second largest Reynolds moneymaker, never had radio advertising until recently when 15-min. programs, copied almost exactly from the Camel quarter-hours, were sent out over N. B. C. The difference: Instead of a "Camel Minstrel" there is a "Prince Albert Dream Girl." Alice Joy, another unknown, has been given the same expensive send-off that Morton Downey had. "Minstrel" Downey caused instant talk with his mellifluous falsetto which sounds like a woman's. By last week, her third on the air, millions of people were...
...week, on a year's contract. By the maxim that anyone who pleases the client is a radio success, Alice Joy is made. She sings over one of the biggest hook-ups in a series which will cost Prince Albert approximately $1,000,000. Her songs, like Minstrel Downey's, are of the mellow, persuasive sort. An occasional old-fashioned ballad supposedly represents the real Alice Joy. a simple, ruddy-cheeked, home-loving girl who adores flowers and ivy-covered churches...
Some of the lines in Five Star Final are unbelievably bad. At one point two colored characters engage in such minstrel show chatter as: "What am a suicide pact?" And a bogus air enters during the scenes in which disillusioned reporters tell each other their troubles. The play has undeniable vitality, however, and provides a good deal of technical information on the inner workings of a gum-chewer sheetlet. Arthur Byron is masterful, makes completely credible the part of a tough, dogged newsman...
...courteous, unimpressed reviews. It was clear that it was not yet fit for the big time and Actress Barrymore repeatedly refused to have her picture taken in blackface. This was probably due to the fact that she was fussing with her makeup, making it lighter and lighter, going from minstrel-show black to high brown. Also, the dialog was being freed from much of its unintelligible verbiage...
...also ''a social type, loving people, laughing much, leading out in song. He had a rich and golden voice. He was fond of charades and wrote execrable poetry, affected anagrams. There was never any sadness where he was." Wherever Stuart went he took Trooper Sweeny, onetime minstrel, to play the banjo. But he never touched liquor and he stopped all Saturday dances at midnight, for he "had serious ideas about Sunday." During the long, hopeless war (which he would never admit was hopeless) he saw his young wife seldom; when they brought him into Richmond...