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*Mammy (1930) - An Original Australian Long Daybill
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Mammy was Al Jolson's fourth feature, following earlier screen efforts
as The Jazz Singer (1927), The Singing Fool (1928) and Say It With Songs
(1929).
Originally named Asa Yoelson, Al was born in a log cabin in Srednik, a
small town in Lithuania - in 1889, Morris Yoelson, Asa's father,
emigrated to the USA alone. Five years later he brought his family to
Washington, D. C., where Yoelson was appointed cantor of a large
synagogue. His deepest ambition was that his youngest son should become
a great cantor, and he gave Asa singing lessons from the age of five.
When Asa was ten his mother died, and he became somewhat of a 'juvenile
delinquent', often playing truant to go to vaudeville shows, he hung out
a gang of what his father called “loafers.” (The “loafers” included a
skinny Negro lad with magic in his feet who grew up to become Bill
Robinson, greatest of all tap dancers.) In 1903, Asa, his brother Harry
and Joe Palmer did a singing-and-comedy vaudeville act. Harry played a
doctor, Asa a bellboy and Palmer a sick man in a wheel chair. James
Francis Dooley, a blackface monologuist, told Asa he would make a much
funnier bellboy if he put on burnt cork. “Blackface goes perfectly with
that southern accent of yours,” he explained. For the next 25 years Asa
was never seen on a stage in white face.
When the act broke up he changed his name to Al Jolson and played in the
West for five years. He began to develop his intimate style of singing,
his way of enfolding an audience to his bosom as if it were a single
giant human being. He also began acting out every song as if the words
and the melody had just occurred to him and were a genuine expression of
his feelings. His mannerism of getting down on one knee, however, was
prompted by a prosaic accident. One night an ingrown toenail hurt
unbearably. So Al knelt to get the pressure off his toe. The trick was
so effective that he adopted it permanently...
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in 1930 by The News (Adelaide, South Australia).
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/Sources: Wikipedia, NY Times (1930//),////Esquire//(1949)/
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