The Singing Kid (Warner Bros.) (1936)

GAGS, JOKES, PUNS RUN WILD Everyone’s interested in gags nowadays——what with a gag popping out every time you turn on the radio, a pun every time you order a cup of coffee—or a wise-crack when you ask a friend for the time. This 5-dayer is built entirely on gags, jokes, puns and what have you. Doesn’t require much writing or concentration on the part of contestants, which’ll help get a flock of embryo gag-men as entrants. And even if newspaper readers don’t enter the contest, they'll want to read the pub ' licity stories which are chock-full of jokes. Suggest contest to your editor, and if he likes it, you can get the 5 illustrations in one mat. Order mat No. 501—50c. (Lead-Off Story) There’s A Prize Waiting For Your Best Funny Story Do you know a good story? A really funny story, that can be told on the screen? Perhaps you’ve heard a good pun recently, or a bit of clever repartee, or a joke, or a play upon words. If you have heard a good one— and it need not be original—Al] Jolson wants it and the .................. (newspaper) is helping him collect them. A joke that’s good enough, or a pun that is really funny enough, may not be a short cut to fame and fortune to you, but it will bring you an evening of pleasure such as you’ve enjoyed very few times in your theatre going life. Beginning tomorrow, and continuing for five consecutive days, the Riso nace (newspaper) will offer iw: tickets £02. tN@. 1... cte.dor saasanan Theatre to the ten movie fans who submit the best jokes, puns, gags, repartee etc. each day. And there will be a grand prize of §.............-. for the best answer received at the end of the contest. Tomorrow this newspaper will publish a story Al Jolson tells in ‘‘The Singing Kid,’’ the First National picture in which he opens Sethe wc ak Theatre ON ....45.....50 First read the story, then send in the best funny story you know. The ten fans submitting the best stories will each receive two tickets to ‘‘The Singing Kid’’ and also stand a chance to win the grand prize. ‘‘The Singing Kid’’ is the biggest and best picture ever made by Al Jolson, the great comedian who, as star of the ‘‘Jazz Singer,’’ made the first screen musical. Featured with Jolson in ‘‘ The Singing Kid’’ are Sybil Jason, the six year old child star, The Yacht Club Boys, Cab Calloway and his Band, Edward Everett Horton, Allen Jenkins, Lyle Talbot, Claire Dodd and scores of other singers, dancers and comedians. Harlem and Broadway have met at Hollywood and combined to make what all eritics declare to be the most uniague and best of screen musicomedies. Which makes a pair of tickets well worth winning, besides the satisfaction of capturing the eash prize. All that is necessary is to write out the joke and send it to the Al Jolson Contest Editor of the oe ee (newspaper) before six o’clock of the evening following the appearance of the call. Thus all entries for tomorrow’s contest must be submitted before six p.m. of the day after tomorrow. More details of this contest in ihre Aka ase (newspaper) tomorrow. a. — a ae cs (First Day Contest) Your Funniest Story May Win Tickets To Theatre As Al Jolson Tells It: There’s a beautiful overcoat in a store window and I figured it was just the thing for my father. 1 went in and priced it. It was $145. I realized that if my father ever knew I paid that much money for an overcoat, he’d never wear it. I bought the coat and had the salesman change the price tag to $15. So I sent the coat to my father, with a letter telling him that I got the coat at a bargain—$15. And what do you think my father did? Two days later he sent a telegram: “Dear Son—Received the coat—it’s beautiful—sold it to Uncle Joe for $18—made a $3 profit—send me 20 more coats at once.” Al Jolson tells the above story in his latest picture, “‘The Singing Kid’’ which opens at the Serr eee er) a hthats Meee eet Theatre on Preview audiences everywhere have roared with laughter when they heard it—not only because it’s really funny, but because the way AI tells it makes it a real scream. Have you a story Al can tell in a new picture? If you have, and it’s one of the ten best stories submitted to the Al Jolson Contest Hiditor0f: s0C sac. ceeee eae (newspaper) before six o’clock tomorrow evening, it will win two tickets to jit: eee en ee ea Theatre to see Jolson in his best musical ‘‘ The Singing Kid.’’ The story need not be original— it makes no difference how old or how new it is. The only consideration is how funny it is. Dialect stories are good, but they are hard to write, particularly when the point depends upon the inflection of a word. It is better if your story can be told in everyday English. Of course your story may win a prize and still not be the kind Al Jolson or other famous screen and radio stars could use. Then again, it might be just what someone of them is seeking. And if you can develop a gift for writing funny stories, you have something that will prove of real value to you. Here’s the last word in musical screen entertainment according to. every critic who has seen the previews. In addition to Al Jolson, the cast contains Sybil Jason, the Yacht Club Boys, Cab Calloway and his Band, Edward Everett Horton, Allen Jenkins, Lyle Talbot, Claire Dodd, and a score of other Hollywood favorites as well as scores of the most beautiful girls in the film capital and the hottest dancing chorus of dusky damsels Harlem could provide. Tomorrow another contest will be announced in this newspaper. Remember, every winning entry in the daily contest has a chance to win the grand prize of $................-. to be awarded at the end of the week. (2nd Day Publicity) Puns And Clever “Bulls” Sought In Jolson Contest Tickets To “The Singing Kid’’ Offered For Best Plays On Words If you’re one of the millions who likes to turn a neat pun, and who gets squelched every time by some guy saying . ‘a pun is the lowest form of wit,’’ here’s your chance to prove your critics are all wrong. Hor neht now thie 0. and will give two tickets to the readers who submit the best puns or ‘‘bulls.’’ There’s a difference between the two forms of wit. The pun is a deliberate humorous play on a word or words—the ‘‘bull’’ is usually unconscious, and is embarrassing to its perpetrator. A classic bull is the old apology: ‘¢Everytime I open my mouth I put my foot in it.’’ A pun is—well, you remember the lawyer who was reading a contract to a client. : ‘¢The rest is routine,’’ said the attorney. ‘‘It is simply the sanity clause.’? . ‘¢You can’t fool me,’’ said Mr. Client. ‘‘There’s ain’t no Sanity Claus.’’ Or, as the scientist told Louis Pasteur: ‘‘Don’t bacilli (be silly).’’ Now all you need to win two tickéts-to the: 6 ce.ce ose Theatre where Al Jolson will open in his greatest musical picture ‘‘The Singing Kid) *:0ngestascucs: , 1s to submit one of the ten best puns or bulls sent to the Al Jolson Contest Editor. of then. 26055: (newspaper) before six o’clock tomorrow evening. .... (newspaper) is seeking puns, pe tes ee Theatre to the ten The pun appearing below the illustration of a scene from ‘‘ The Singing Kid’’ is told in the picture, and was selected from hundreds submitted. Now Al Jolson is seeking new puns, and bulls, or, as they are called in theatrical parlance, ‘‘ gags.’’ Each day for five days a different Al Jolson contest will appear invthescics wera. (newspaper), with prizes every day and a grand prize Of ($...sas:k.cn. to be awarded at the end of the contest. Today’s pun and bull contest should be a particularly interesting one, for nearly everybody takes his pun where he finds it. But no one is allowed to use the one that asks for a sentence using the words defeat, defense and detail. Everyone knows that when a cow jumps over de fence, de feet go over before de tail, and . But that’s enough. Send in your best pun, or bull, and win two tickets to the best musical picture Al Jolson ever made and perhaps Wit BikePics as well. Tomorrow’s contest will call for brilliant examples of repartee. (2nd Day Contest) It’s In “The Singing Kid” “Allen,” said Al Jolson as he removed his top hat, “can you give me a sentence using the word ‘formaldehyde’ ?” Edward Everett Horton (center) turned and looked at Allen Jenkins. “Sure,” said Jenkins. “From all de hiding places came de Indians.”