This recall of the people in wide-eyed Eddie Cantor's life starts with his grandmother Esther and his East Side, impoverished days. On through marriage and children, producers and song writers and the familiar career, there is the appreciation of a life he has found good, and even better now. The series of profiles together with anecdotes, stories, professional and personal reminiscences make a stand up and cheer type of book that bears the hallmark of a real performer.