In defiance, it flipped him the ""middle finger." When he hought he had killed it for good: "Got ya, didn""t I, ya little sucker!" - he was sprayed directly in the face with a torrent of blood from multiple holes in the wall...Jack: Uh, formerly a school-teacher...I""m a writer.Umm, teaching""s been more or less a way of making ends meet...I""m lookin"" for a change.General Manager Ullman explains that the regular season runs from "May 15 to October 30th and then we close down completely until the following May" - a period of six months when the deserted, off-season, snow-bound hotel is closed and inaccessible during the brutal, terrifying winter weather.That evening, as a sole traveler in the night with his wrapped birthday bottle of wine, he pays a functional visit to his mistress"" apartment." So instead of committing to dinner with Bud, she hesitantly agrees to meet him in the Majestic Theater lobby at 8:30 pm for the start of he show.Star Parks received the nomination, although Jolson did the actual singing for the part.And then there was a sequel,Jolson Sings Again (1949).Although the film was ruled ineligible in the Best Picture category (it was thought unfair for a sound film to compete with silents), Warner Bros.