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	<title>A Tribute to Al Jolson</title>
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		<title>&#8220;You Ain&#8217;t Heard Nothin&#8217; Yet&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jolsonville.com/2009/07/11/you-aint-heard-nothin-yet/</link>
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excerpts from:
A New Jewy? America since the Second World War
By Peter Y. Medding, Oxford University Press, 1992
While Einstein was based in Zurich, formulating in abstract mathematical terms the notion that energy consisted of mc², he might have easily discovered its most ebullient embodiment dominating the vaudeville circuit across the Atlantic. Perhaps no white entertainer in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=681&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Show Business to Korea&#8217;s Front Lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Jolson, other names want to work in Korea
Billboard, August 12th 1950.
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 5. &#8212; With the intensification of the Korean crisis, showbiz here is girding for battle. Names and various orgs devoted to entertaining the troops during the last war are either resuming their previous operations or are ready to go into action on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=661&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Rose of Washington Square&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twentieth Century-Fox Strolls Down Melody Lane in &#8216;Rose of Washington Square,&#8217; at the Roxy
New York Times
By Frank Nugent
Published: May 6, 1939
 Twentieth Century-Fox&#8217;s latest tour down Melody Lane has come to the Roxy under the blushing title &#8220;Rose of Washington Square,&#8221; the Rose being neither Al Jolson nor Tyrone Power (as we had feared), but Alice [...]<br /><a href='http://jolsonville.com/2009/06/05/656/'><img width='160' height='120' src='http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/SQibBRdk/jolson-wash-sq2.thumbnail.jpg' /> </a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=656&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The significance of “The Jazz Singer.”</title>
		<link>http://jolsonville.com/2009/05/19/the-significance-of-%e2%80%9cthe-jazz-singer-%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 20:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Excerpts from A Song in the Dark: the Birth of the Musical Film (1995)
by Richard Barrios
The most detectable asset of The Jazz Singer is the conviction put into it – Warners’ and Alan Crosland’s belief in the project and Jolson’s belief in his powers as a musical entertainer. Whether the material was worthy of belief [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=579&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jolson&#8217;s last starring role</title>
		<link>http://jolsonville.com/2009/05/06/jolsons-last-starry-part/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Excerpt from the biography by Edward Jablonski:
Harold Arlen: Rhythm, Rainbows, and Blues (1998)
Around the same time Arlen took his camera to a location shoot of “The Singing Kid” in nearby Franklin Canyon on a misty, coolish morning. Anya, not in this film, wore a heavy coat with a stylish fluffy white fur collar. Her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=529&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Radio Days</title>
		<link>http://jolsonville.com/2009/03/15/492/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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The Jolson Story:
Al’s Success in Radio Adds New Luster to Career of Master Minstrel&#8221;
New York Times,
April 13, 1947
By Jack Gould
The season of 1946-47 may yet become known as the year of the &#8220;comeback.&#8221; Back last fall Jack Benny confounded the pundits of Radio Row [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=492&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Jazz Singer&#8221; Opening review</title>
		<link>http://jolsonville.com/2009/02/16/movie-review-the-jazz-singer-ny-times-1927/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Jolson at Warners' Theatre made his screen début in the movie of Samson Raphaelson's play "The Jazz Singer," and the first feature "talking" using the Vitaphone system.  The audience had the rare opportunity of hearing Mr. Jolson sing several of his own songs and also render most effectively the Jewish hymn "Kol Nidre."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=455&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sneak Preview</title>
		<link>http://jolsonville.com/2009/01/07/sneak-preview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ February 27, 2009  - May 9, 2009 
 

 

















































King&#8217;s Edinburgh 
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Churchill Bromley 
March 10-14
Regent Stoke-On-Trent 
March 17-21
Malvern Theatres Malvern 
March 23-28
Yvonne Arnaud Guildford 
March 30-April 4
Theatre Royal Plymouth 
April 7-11
Theatre Royal Newcastle-upon-Tyne 
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Jolson &#38; Company: A Musical Play
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		<title>NY Times, 1950</title>
		<link>http://jolsonville.com/2009/01/05/jolson-dead-new-york-times-1950/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Al Jolson, &#8220;The Jazz Singer,&#8221; died at the St. Francis Hotel here tonight. He had recently returned from Korea after entertaining troops there.
Death came just after 10:30 P.M. (PST) as Mr. Jolson was playing cards in his room with friends. He was in San Francisco to be the guest star on the Bing Crosby radio [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=378&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Benchley</title>
		<link>http://jolsonville.com/2008/05/14/robert-benchley-al-jolson-stage-biography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 03:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Robert Benchley, writing in &#8220;Life Magazine,&#8221; captured Jolson&#8217;s unique effect on audiences: &#8220;The word ‘personality&#8217; isn&#8217;t quite strong enough for the thing that Jolson has. Unimpressive as the comparison may be to Mr. Jolson, we should say that John the Baptist was the last man to have such power. There is something supernatural at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=52&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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