George Jessel and His Russian Art Choir (1931)

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Runtime : 20M

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Veteran vaudevillian regales the audience with highlights from his comedy travel monologue and introduces "His Modern Art Choir," A Russian group he met while traveling in the Soviet Union who sing a traditional Russian song and an American standard.

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George Jessel
George Jessel

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