Word: cohan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonial at 8.10--"Billie". Another Cohan show. Good clean fun for all ages...
...money, she laughed and said that she was only fooling. At Keeney's Vaudeville House in Brooklyn when she was 13 she won $10 on amateur night singing "When You Know You're Not Forgotten by the Girl You Can't Forget." She danced in Cohan and Harris' chorus; in burlesque she sang some of Irving Berlin's first songs; when she was 17 Ziegfeld headlined her in the Follies of 1910; two years ago she made her debut as a dramatic actress in Fanny. She had an operation on her hooked nose to make...
Mima. David Belasco is the grand old man of the U.S. theatre. To prove this, he wears a turn-around collar and permits himself to be photographed frequently with a benign facial expression. Like Flo Ziegfeld, George M. Cohan and certain other producers, he is never publicly designated as ridiculous. For the last few weeks, articles have appeared in news-sheets telling how "the Dean of the American Stage is working day and night, transforming his theatre into a veritable Hades," how "Belasco's version of Ferenc Molnar's Mima costs $300,000 to present," and lastly...
...stars can write their own plays, though Noel Coward in This Year of Grace, Mae West in Diamond Lit and George M. Cohan, in past years, have been able to do so. Jane Cowl remains a better actress than a playwright. The Jealous Moon is so sweet that it excites a mental toothache...
...Home Towners. George M. Cohan believes himself to be the author of this story about a suspicious old man who comes to New York from South Bend, Ind., to be best man for a friend who is marrying a woman they wouldn't like in South Bend. While the camera turns its solemn eye and ear on the declamations and gestures of Richard Bennett and Doris Kenyon, the spectators, distracted by the jerky sequences, annoyed by the enormous metallic voices issuing from the vitaphone, are left to wonder what sounds even a perfected mechanism could produce which would equal...