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seen for Jolson versus Killer In the beginning of their marriage, Jolie had liked Ruby's family despite Nellie's indiscretions. Visa vee the press. He sometimes wondered why the Olsens couldn't be, is intimate and folksy. Is this Irish clan? Beginning in 1936 when Al's professional activity was lessened and restricted almost entirely to radio, he spent more time with Ruby in Encino. Ruby also had more free time. Colleen was finished before the end of 1935 and ready, willing and able. Her last Warner film was not shot until the following September. Thean activity May Jolson. Tense and restless, resentful of his middle age and of the new generation of stars that had come up the easy way and stolen his thunder, he took out most of his frustrations on Ruby. If she ventured an opinion on anything, Al told her, she was all wet or immature, always short tempered in cynical, Al became increasingly hostile in the middle and late thirties, saying he was glad he lived in Encino because he hated the Hollywood phony is who lived in Beverly Hills. Almost everything he said around his wife was negative about something when he talked mostly he just sat and brooded. Ruby tried to talk to him, but there was no way she could understand Al Jolson. He had a way of shutting her out. That was maddening, more more shipowner, self retreating to her family, spending as much time as possible with Helen and her other sisters and talking to her mother on the phone. Al resenting this made cynical remarks about the Keeler's. Jolson had pointed things to say about Ralph Keeler, Ruby's father, and he referred to the whole family as shanty Irish. Al had become disenchanted with Al Jolson Jr Sonny was a mama's boy, not the man's band Jolie wanted. It was just a tot, but I'll resent to the way sunning preferred Ruby in her family. To him, Al was 23 years older than Ruby bothered him more than it bothered me, Miss Keeler told Denver Post movie editor Reena Andrews in 1981. I was a possessive man, which was difficult for May. He always felt I'd meet somebody. I guess that was it. I don't know if I was gone for just 10 minutes, just shopping. Mind you, I had to explain it. He didn't mind me working, but he also wanted me with him. If he was doing something, sometimes he did, but sometimes he did not. When his radio show for Lever Brothers went off the air for the summer of 1937 all took a trip to New York without Ruby. After a few weeks, he sent for her, and as soon as she arrived, he sent her back again with the same stuff he had pulled with Henrietta 20 years before. Jolson remained in New York until it was time to resume his radio broadcasts. Early in September, George Jessel was his first guest star of the season, and Al Jolson Jr was on hand to greet them. When the two men got off the airplane in Los Angeles, our race down the stairway ran to the 2.5 year old and lifted him high off the ground. Who am I, Sonny boy? He asked. You're the Jew, replied the child. Jessel said it was the only time he had ever seen Jolson humiliated. The trouble in Alice's marriage increased in the months that followed. Rubies chance to co star with a stare fell through, but