Word: jessel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Jessel, radio showman, disclosed a pact between him and James John ("Jimmie") Walker, nimble-witted onetime mayor of New York City, by which the survivor will deliver the other's funeral oration. Showman Jessel has spoken 50 eulogies in the last 15 years. Most memorable one, over the body of Broadway Comedian Jack Osterman last June: "Mr. God, they say you've got a great big heart, so give the boy a great big hand...
...amusement industry, the gaslit, two-a-day vaudeville that was historically bounded on one side by P. T. Barnum, on the other by radio and talking pictures. Loosely based on the life and exploitations of Impresario Gus Edwards, who detected promise in such kiddies as Georgie Jessel, Lila Lee and Walter Winchell and plucked the youthful Eddie Cantor out of a knife-throwing act, The Star Maker has as its frame the similar career of Larry Earl (Bing Crosby). Like Impresario Edwards, Larry goes on mopping up with his moppets until a children's protective society forcibly shows...
...Fred Allen and the Bristol-Myers Town Hall Tonight company, NBC. Substitutes starting this week: George Jessel, For Men Only; What's My Name?, a guessing-game program that made its fame last year over MBS for Philip Morris...
...that in 1935-36 cinema had received a contribution outstanding "for having revolutionized one of the most important branches of the industry- Newsreel. Its creativeness is looked upon by the Academy as a 'shot in the arm' for the whole newsreel field." At the banquet, Toastmaster George Jessel handed a Special Award Oscar to Vice President Roy Edward Larsen of TIME Inc. for THE MARCH OF TIME...
Democrats: Virginia C. Gildersleeve, Mary Woolley, Will Durant, Robert Taylor, George Raft, George Jessel, George Gershwin, George M. Cohan, Lee Shubert, Eddy Duchin, W. C. Fields, Beatrice Lillie, Joe E. Brown...