The Washington times., 1938-02-19
Singer Who Made NANNY
Comes Into New Popularity;
Finds Fresh Audience
By ED SULLIVAN
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 10.

JOLSON s radio comeback the talk OF the industry
n Joson accepted by all professionals of the musical
comedy and vaudeville stage the No finally has
mastered radio technique and today at 3d. he on the
threshold of a
His is the only radio show that gives you the pack
stage atmosphere the old Winter Garden. Agents.
writer's script writers clustered behind the scenes just
as they used his dressing Joson fights
with all of hem argues this point and that, works himself
up frenzy and them at the signal walks smlngy
out the broadcast rostrm and gives 1t IS the only
way he work. as result of his stage training
olson appearcd one night on the Burns Allen program.
Everyone greeted him pleasantly He made some suggestion
changing line in the script and they hurried to cor
for him. There hurry no tension-Jus pol
shed and workmanke broadcast When it over Joson
1never had such dull time life. I've got to have noise
and exciement.' And he wasn't clownng
MO performer in our tasted much of the sweets Of
~ success as Jolson He great entertainer great
Snowman It was nothing unusual for him to stay stage
bv himself for As clip, and keep audience
enrrossed in his and stories that they didn't
whether the of the show appeared not He to
popular business what Dempsey to the ring or
Babe Ruth to baseball Jones to golf At So he has clicked
on the radio and the Crosey report shows him the heels
of the leaders, Show business offers nothing to match his
career.
"Tes Pilot" with Gable Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy,
should offer conclusive test of the movie market because
that trio figures get all the money in sight Newsboys
out here rainy days deliver that ceophane
covered Wire congrats Al Rosen Loews State Theater
manager New York It's his fifth anniversary there as
house manager and he's done remarkable job in keeping
vaudeville alive Under his direction, Loews State
rivals Engands Palladium vaude house. Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbs greatest thrill in racing at Nara
gansett when his Discovery almost up beat Rose
mont at was impossible make Discovery any
but he preferred He got off slowly and the race
almost done when he started charging Iii never forget
the excitement he around the last turn heben Tor
election He just failed to get up to Rosemont at the WIRE
GCDAD Man of Birthstone" which gave M.G.-M.
ID bad case of jtters when they the preview, is
cleaning p at the box office "A nice honeymoon present
for j. Walter Ruben who directed it, and Virginia Bruce,
who emoed The public apparently wants the movies
to 90 back to the old formula of excitement They want
makers out of hiding in drawing rooms
and salons.
After five months of the most amazing weather this re-
porter has experienced it has started raining out here
. 1t is coming down in bucketfus, the it rains in the
East in the spring But somebody is always taking the run
out of life Government experts have punctured the old
out of his hole February to look at his shadow
In fact they that he his shadow he'd know what
it Next thing you know these calloused men OF
science will there amt no Santa Claus.
NEW YORK reporters who insist that Walt Disney will
~ not make another length flicker for five years,
will he hurt to learn that "Bamb is already in work 1t
will be released fulengther about Christmas re-
suit of the terrific crosses rolled by Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs" -. Groucho Marks comment on a
famous Hollywood author 81 knew him before he had plot
to cook in Jean Arthur insists that money never has
entered into her argument with Harry Cohn at Columbia;
that about the number of pictures and the
QUALITY of them.
Went down the Pacific Ocean at Long Beach the other
day to see the Pacific Fleet thinking the war would
be lined up as they when anchored in the Hudson
River . 1t was raining, and the 25mie trip wasn't too
pleasant Finally got there. Far at sea could make out
the gray upersrucures of the Pacific Fleet but pre-
view it was flop . After all the battling, Paulete God
dard joins Dave Seznc and she's cinch for Gone With
the Wind" l think David pulled very smart publicity
stunt the boys Death of former Attorney General
Albert Otnger in New York is crowded with political
"fs" Had Ottnger beaten Franklin D. Roosevelt for gov
ernor of York instead of losing by few thousand
ballots Roosevelt would not have gone on to the Wmte
House Then what The speculative vista thus conJured
up is intriguing
O. O. MCINTYRE was character in our craft, geneel
Boswell the era He always reported things from the
viewpoint of the smaown boy gaping at the big city ana
the formula was so successful that ndcated writer had
his column many papers :. We'll all miss ODD
He was grand guy refutation of the belief that writer
must lift the off refuse to be successful.
STUART HOLMES, who still drives around in the sports
car he bought years ago. when he the leading heavy
in HOLLYWOOD Dick Merrill who recently flew Sonia
Hene to Florida of the bravest I've known
vet he has greatest collection of perfume in the country
and sprnkes it in the cabin before every flight Abdul