Word: yoelson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Ince, cineman, trolling for sea bass 18 mi. offshore from Santa Monica, Calif., yanked his line to free it from a kelp bed. fell to the deck in agony. The line had whipped back over his head, embedded the three-inch fishhook in the base of his skull. Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy singer, stood by in his fast motorboat, sped Ince ashore to a hospital...
...Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy-singer, went to Aqueduct (L. I.) racetrack, bet on three horses, came away with...