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Show "Jolson Story," Lavish Musical In Technicolor Columbia Pictures' "The Jolson Story," with Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, Wm. Demarest and Bill Goodwin, opens Sunday at the Riv-oli Riv-oli Theatre. Filmed in technicolor, technicol-or, this is the long-awaited extravaganza extrav-aganza based on the music, the magic and the times of America's greatest entertainer. Proclaimed as a colorful and rhythmic panorama of American show business, the screenplay, by Stephen Longstreet, carries thru nearly forty years of JoLson's remarkable re-markable career. Dramatically revealed re-vealed are the steps leading to his success. In New Orleans, he has become tired of the traditional routines of a minstrel show; the new-fangled "blues" music fascinates fasci-nates him and deep Inside he is developing de-veloping a technique all his own to fully capture the rhythms of jazz. Audiences excite him -he wants to get even closer to them, he wants to make them feel what he feels in his blood. When he gets his first crack at Broadway, he is ready with his new-found style and creates a sensation. The Jolson Story Is largely told in music as might be expected, for no other entertainer has had so many beloved melodies associated with htm. We can expect to hear: "Swanee," "You Made Me Love You," "By the Light of the Silvery Silv-ery Moon," etc. |