Show JOLSON WOULD NOT OT BE A CANTOR The he Jazz Singer Partly Autobiographical graphical Story Rev Reveals ls A AL Af TOON lJJ 4 4 I. r- r rI LL I- I ILL S WENT INTO f ND HE fU W IV HER HER- Y yoo Moos U jolson Act Acted i in Circuses Cabarets and nd Shows hoWs Before Broadway Suc Success ess r Talkie Hit By DAN bAr THOMAS S. S 0 db Cal Cali Aug 10 NEA When EA A Asa n was born orn Into this thIs' world In St. St Pot Petersburg Peters Peters- burS burg Russia he found hla career aU all U mapped out for tor him Cantor tho sixth In a rL succession accession of ot Jewish cant cantors Is I's In the family decided that little muo Asa sa should follow tollow In hIs footsteps Even when the family moved to America Cantor retained his ils Ideas with reg regard rd to his 1115 sons son future He was not going t 16 to let America interfere with his religious vI views or those 10 of his children But little UtU Asa Afo leta had some Ideas Ideas' of his o own n He Hc didn't want to Ing irig In a a. He Hc wanted to sIng ing snappy tunes which his bis father consIdered wicked As a. a a result of or their difference nce of opInion pinion As Asa ran ran away from home and nd became a ballyhoo man for tor a circus Later he returned to WashIngton Wash Wash- Ington hi his home town not to to tode devote devote de- de vote vote rote his time to religion as as his fath father ather r but to sing in a. a cabaret After some time In the Washington n. n cabaret Asa Asi went vent Into vaud vaudeville with his younger o brother And then It happened that he 10 changed hIs his name from Asa Aso t to AI Al Jolson It It was as while working In Brooklyn I that hat Jolson firs first donned makeup A An Ah aged n negro gro who as as- as slated Isted him In Jn dressing for fOl his act was vas the of cause of It Doss Boss Boss said the old darky one nIghts night why d dont nt you OU put some som lack block on n yo 0 fa face e Why dont don't you sing Ing yo 0 songs songs all aU blacked up that 1 way a-way That always makes makes' em emIa Ia laugh gh some burnt cork and blackened black- black ned ened my face before I 1 went on the stage age that night V says s 's J Jolson And the audience gave me such a abig aig big ig hand that I have clung to that characterization n ever evel since Soon nt after t ho had bad become a 1 comedian ri ho joined Dock Dockstader's ock stader's Minstrels He was with t then em 1 for r t o years when ono one of ot tho IQ saw saw flaw him and 1 lately ly ens engaged ged him to appear at the la Winter Garden In New York It t was at the Winter in t cr Garden that Jolson olson rose to the fame tame he now en- en enoy Joys oy In five years years' he had outgrown outgrown out out- grown the the- Winter Garden arden a and d the put him on the thc st stage go in inIs his Is own revues the o outstanding ones nes being Big RIS Bo Boys Boy and Bombo For y ars film fUm producers tried to 0 persuade e Jolson to to forsake the I stage in f favor vol of ot movie gold But Al AI lIk liked d the stage too well wen He HeI wouldn't t even eve listen t to them About I two years cars ago ngo when ho was appearing ap- ap on on tho stage in Los L s Angel An An- gel geles s Warner Brothers offered him the starring role In one ono of oC their first talking and singing films George Georgc J Jessel was originally slated for the part part but refus refused to piny It Warners paid hint him an ah additional for his his' voice In In despair the tho Warner Vorn r brothers turned to Jc Jolson vho who accepted a an and n l app appeared ared oh on the screen for the thO first time in n. n Tho Ja Jazz Jaras Singer This picture proved to be on one biggest box office hits bits the tho film world h ha has ever ever A Al AI then came came right tIght back and scored another hit In Tho The Singing I Fool ool He re recently recently re- re c completed Say It With Songs which will be e r released about September 1 L At that tIme h he will start tart tarton on his next production Mammy i |