"THE JOLSON STORY" PART 1 Archives

“THE JOLSON STORY” PART 1 – By Des Kelly A great movie, something that one could watch over & over again. It was 1951, the “venue” was the brand new Savoy Theatre, Bambalapitiya, practically opposite St.Peter’s College, where “your’s truly” was the monitor of the most nefarious “class”, “Junior D” & my pal, Denis Roberts(R.I.P), was the prayer-monitor. Just a bit of “interesting-information” on my Alma-Mater before we go back to my main story, folks, and you ain’t heard nuthin yet!, St. Peter’s College was primarily a hospital, during WW2, with a huge “red-cross” covering the roof of the main building. College was right next to the Wellawatte Canal, another notorious meeting place of early drug-dealers and/or users, but this had nothing to do with College, of course. It was a “Catholic-College” for boys. Girls were only figments of our imagination then, but what figments they were!!. The former hospital ...