Word: cohan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Some producers can afford to put on a box-office failure just because it's an artistic success, but I haven't reached that stage yet," said George M. Cohan to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon between acts of "The Song and Dance man", in the title role of which he is appearing at the Selwyn Theatre. "It costs money to operate in the show business, and you've got to give the public what it wants. If the public expects one thing from me, I'd be foolish to experiment with another. I am ready to turn to something...
George M. Cohan, fond of Irish names, has brought forth another, The Rise of Rose O'Reilly, soon to immigrate into Manhattan...
...about the other characters. Often as this has been done in the movies, we can remember no like plot on the stage. The double drama of the main action; the suspense, the laugh, the further development that brings more suspense, then more laughter, is admirably managed.---Well, George M. Cohan wrote it, so we really don't need to analyze...
Ralph Morehouse had a trying part as a detective. We suppose it should be blamed on Mr. Cohan; but still, the blurb of the detective which lets the audience, and the actors, know how much he loves humanity seems terribly over-done. It is a trifle sickening for a two-fisted, hardboiled, graft-hunting. Irish detective to fall without warning to the estate of fond "deus ex." Mr. Morehouse would have had it over sooner if he had known his part better. But the prompter's voice can rarely be entirely dispensed with on stock company's first nights...
Others: Colyumists Adams and Broun, Archbishop Hayes, Rabbi Wise, Bishop Manning, Attorneys Cravath and Elkins, Shipowner Franklin, Railroader Rea, Producers Cohan and Woods...