Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Singing Kid (Warner). Cinemaddicts for whom Warner Brothers musicals have hitherto been trademarked by the presence of Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee and Frank McHugh, may well rub their eyes to discover herein such novelties as Negro Bandmaster Cab Calloway, the Yacht Club Boys, a British-sounding ingenue named Beverly Roberts and a 6-year-old moppet called Sybil Jason, imported from Capetown by way of London. Among child actresses, Sybil Jason is to Shirley Temple as Jean Harlow is to Ann Harding: less whole some but more refreshing. She made her stage debut at 3. doing imitations...
...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's hoarse, good-humored style of putting over a song as acceptable to cinemaddicts now as it was eight years ago when he used...
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...
When Franklin Roosevelt started to plan his customary spring vacation, first necessity was to find a seaworthy substitute for Vincent Astor's Nourmahal, the "million dollar yacht" which sounded too plutocratic in the ears of ordinary voters in an election year. That problem was solved by the Coast Guard which converted for the President's use a cutter rechristened the Potomac. Second necessity was to find substitutes for Mr. Astor and the socialite group of Long Islanders and Wall Streeters who in other years had been the Presidential fishing companions...
Neither idle rich, idle Brain Trusters nor idle politicians would be inoffensive to 1936 public taste. Therefore as the President fished from his modest yacht in the Bahamas last week he had with him only his military and naval aides, his physician and two relatives. One was his firstborn, James. The other was his 72-year-old Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., onetime (1914-18) member of the Federal Reserve Board, one of whose current hobbies is Washington's Park & Planning Commission and whose most recent job, given him fortnight...