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...musicomedy star (Sinbad, Bombo, Big Boy), whose brassy voice in The Jazz Singer for Warner Brothers in 1927 gave talking pictures their first real start; of coronary occlusion; in San Francisco. After a successful movie and radio career and then semi-retirement in the thirties, Jolson (real name Asa Yoelson) started a second career during World War II, when he entertained troops in Europe, Africa, India and the South Pacific. In 1946 his dubbed-in singing of his old favorites (My Mammy, Sonny Boy, Swanee, April Showers) in The Jolson Story, a motion picture version of his life, brought...
Oldtime Song & Dance Man Harry Jolson (Hirsch Yoelson.) sued his brother Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson) for $25,000 in back pay, earned at $150 a week, said Harry, by not using the name Jolson in the theater...
Divorced. Ethel Hilder (Ruby) Keeler, 30, ex-dancer, cinemactress, from Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson), 51, mammy singer, cinemactor; in Los Angeles...
Sued. Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson), mammy-singer; by Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist; for $500,000, the extent to which Colyumist Winchell said he was damaged when he was struck and felled last month in Hollywood's Legion Stadium by Singer Yoelson, disturbed over reports that Winchell's new scenario (Broadway Through a Keyhole) was discreditable to his wife, Ruby Keeler (TIME, July...
...Wonder Bar is a Viennese importation using the modern (and ancient) device of making the whole theatre the stage. It is notable solely for the fact that it brings Singer Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson) back to the legitimate stage after an absence of five years. The Nora Bayes Theatre is transformed into a huge cafe. Swarms of waiters, chasseurs, patrons, pages, barmen, gigolos and handsome poules de luxe make their entrances through the aisles, and the proprietor, Al Jolson, works hard to pull the production together by circulating through the audience, greeting startled latecomers, insisting that there is "never...